rotondité
\ʁɔ.tɔ̃.di.te\
The verdict
“rotondité” 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) - Caractère de ce qui est rond, rondeur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotondite · rotondité · French
rotondité · 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 | rotondité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.tɔ̃.di.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rotondité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rotondité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.tɔ̃.di.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
rotondité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rotondité, spelled R-O-T-O-N-D-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est rond, rondeur.
- 2Grosseur, corpulence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rotondité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai jamais conçu, comme ce soir, la rotondité de la terre. Me comprends-tu ? La terre toute ronde, toute fraîche, et nous deux qui tournons autour par une route unie entre des arbres… Toute la terre comme un jardin la nuit où deux sages se promènent. Les autres choses finissent quelque part ; il le faut bien. Mais un globe n’a pas de fin. L’horizon de…
Les boules de nuages roulaient dans le ciel sans se déformer, sans perdre un atome de leur rotondité. Ils prenaient au passage un village tout entier dans leur filet d’ombres, et, en s’éloignant, ils le relâchaient.
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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.