rottweiler
\ʁɔt.vaj.lœʁ\
The verdict
“rottweiler” is uncommon French (frequency #71,885 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,885
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien bouvier, de type molossoïde, originaire d'Allemagne, utilisée historiquement pour garder les troupeaux, robuste, à l'aspect trapu et vigoureux, à robe noir et feu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rottweiler · rottweiler · French
rottweiler · rank #71,885 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,885
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rotatifs
Nearest frequency peer: rotatifs (-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 « rottweiler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rochambeau
Rochambeau
28,119 corpus weight
- rol
rol
28,118 corpus weight
- rotatifs
rotatifs
28,117 corpus weight
- rottweiler
rottweiler
28,116 corpus weight
- roulantes
roulantes
28,115 corpus weight
- rouste
rouste
28,114 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rottweiler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rottweiler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔt.vaj.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rottweiler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rottweiler is uncommon French at frequency #71,885 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔt.vaj.lœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien bouvier, de type molossoïde, originaire d'Allemagne, utilisée historiquement pour garder les troupeaux, robuste, à l'aspect trapu et vigoureux, à robe noir et feu.".
Zero misspellings are on record for rottweiler in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rottweiler, spelled R-O-T-T-W-E-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Race de chien bouvier, de type molossoïde, originaire d'Allemagne, utilisée historiquement pour garder les troupeaux, robuste, à l'aspect trapu et vigoureux, à robe noir et feu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rottweiler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À trois mètres, le rottweiler pousse sur ses pattes arrière, puis disparaît dans les épis battus par les pales de l’hélico.
Synonyms
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); 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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