Roxana

name

The verdict

“Roxana” is uncommon French (frequency #90,142 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,142
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-roxana · Roxana · French

Roxana · rank #90,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,142
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rouvertes

Nearest frequency peer: rouvertes (-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 « Roxana »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Roxana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Roxana
PropertyValue
HeadwordRoxana
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#90,142
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Roxana » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Roxanatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « rouvertes » (#90,141), « royalisme » (#90,143), « rosales » (#90,140). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « Roxana » est au #90,142. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Roxana is uncommon French at frequency #90,142 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Roxana doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Roxana, spelled R-O-X-A-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. « Si l’opportunité ne se présente pas, crée-la ! », déclame Roxana Maosi, membre de Bigger Pie, une guilde outre-Manche s’adressant aux femmes dans le Web 2.5 (qui adjoint aux outils et réseaux sociaux les technologies de la blockchain) et le Web3.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Roxana"?
"Roxana" is spelled R-O-X-A-N-A.
What does "Roxana" mean?
As a proper noun, "Roxana" means: Prénom féminin.
What language does "Roxana" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Roxana", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list