rots
\ʁo\
The verdict
“rots” is uncommon French (frequency #84,267 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,267
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rot (éructation).
Corpus desk
Index FR-rots · rots · French
rots · rank #84,267 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,267
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH roulet
Nearest frequency peer: roulet (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rondelette
rondelette
15,737 corpus weight
- ronflait
ronflait
15,736 corpus weight
- rots
rots
15,734 corpus weight
- roulet
roulet
15,733 corpus weight
- Rudyard
Rudyard
15,732 corpus weight
- Rufisque
Rufisque
15,731 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rots is uncommon French at frequency #84,267 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rot (éructation).".
Zero misspellings are on record for rots in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is rots, spelled R-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de rot (éructation).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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