Roxana
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
- Rivest
Rivest
9,863 corpus weight
- rosales
rosales
9,861 corpus weight
- rouvertes
rouvertes
9,860 corpus weight
- Roxana
Roxana
9,859 corpus weight
- royalisme
royalisme
9,858 corpus weight
- rugissements
rugissements
9,856 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Roxana » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roxana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Roxana » en français
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
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Roxana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« 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.
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