roture

\ʁɔ.tyʁ\

/\ʁɔ.tyʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“roture” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défrichement, puis terre défrichée, puis le sens glissa vers celui de petite culture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-roture · roture · French

roture · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 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.

Key facts for roture
PropertyValue
Headwordroture
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁɔ.tyʁ\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « roture » en français

roturen'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

roture is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁɔ.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for roture in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 roture, spelled R-O-T-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Défrichement, puis terre défrichée, puis le sens glissa vers celui de petite culture.
  2. 2
    État d’une personne ou d’un héritage qui n’est pas noble.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des roturiers, en tant que classe sociale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how roture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Terre en roture.
  2. Ce n’était pas un fief, une seigneurie, c’était une roture, ce n’était qu’une roture.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roture"?
"roture" is spelled R-O-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁɔ.tyʁ\.
What does "roture" mean?
As a noun, "roture" means: Défrichement, puis terre défrichée, puis le sens glissa vers celui de petite culture.
How do you pronounce "roture"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roture" is \ʁɔ.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roture" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list