rotulien
\ʁɔ.ty.ljɛ̃\
The verdict
“rotulien” is uncommon French (frequency #91,120 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,120
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la rotule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rotulien · rotulien · French
rotulien · rank #91,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,120
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rosi
Nearest frequency peer: rosi (-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 « rotulien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rone
rone
8,884 corpus weight
- roro
roro
8,883 corpus weight
- rosi
rosi
8,882 corpus weight
- rotulien
rotulien
8,881 corpus weight
- rouelle
rouelle
8,880 corpus weight
- Rouvroy
Rouvroy
8,879 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rotulien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rotulien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ty.ljɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #91,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rotulien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rotulien is uncommon French at frequency #91,120 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁɔ.ty.ljɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la rotule.".
rotulien has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rotulien, spelled R-O-T-U-L-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la rotule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rotulien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le 81e mondial, diminué par une tendinite rotulienne et une contracture à une cuisse, n'a pas eu le temps de récupérer à temps de son match en cinq sets jeudi contre le Japonais Tatsuma Ito.
L’entraineur du PSG, Luis Enrique, s’est montré confiant jeudi quant à la présence de Kylian Mbappé face à Nice vendredi soir en ouverture de la 5ᵉ journée de Ligue 1, l’attaquant ayant passé un « examen clinique rassurant » après avoir été gêné par un tendon rotulien en équipe de France.
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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