roture
\ʁɔ.tyʁ\
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roture » en français
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
- 1Défrichement, puis terre défrichée, puis le sens glissa vers celui de petite culture.
- 2État d’une personne ou d’un héritage qui n’est pas noble.
- 3Ensemble des roturiers, en tant que classe sociale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Terre en roture.
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.