rôtisseur
\ʁo.ti.sœʁ\
The verdict
“rôtisseur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui a la spécialité de faire rôtir les viandes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotisseur · rôtisseur · French
rôtisseur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rôtisseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo.ti.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rôtisseur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁo.ti.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rôtisseur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rôtisseur, spelled R-Ô-T-I-S-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui a la spécialité de faire rôtir les viandes.
- 2Celui qui vend des viandes rôties ou prêtes à rôtir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rôtisseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un adage prétend qu’on devient cuisinier mais qu’on naît rôtisseur.
Retenez cela, galopin. N’est pas rôtisseur qui veut. C’est un don du ciel.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.