Roxane
\ʁɔ.ksan\
The verdict
“Roxane” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,234
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin, porté, entre autres, par l’épouse d’Alexandre le Grand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roxane · Roxane · French
Roxane · rank #31,234 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,234
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rosette
Nearest frequency peer: rosette (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Roxane »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ronger
ronger
68,770 corpus weight
- Rosen
Rosen
68,769 corpus weight
- rosette
rosette
68,768 corpus weight
- Roxane
Roxane
68,767 corpus weight
- règnes
règnes
68,766 corpus weight
- réalisait
réalisait
68,765 corpus weight
What this shows « Roxane » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Roxane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔ.ksan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Roxane »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Roxane (IPA \ʁɔ.ksan\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,234 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin, porté, entre autres, par l’épouse d’Alexandre le Grand.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Roxane, with forms such as "orxane", "roaxne", and "roxaen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "royan", "royale", "Roxanne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Roxane, spelled R-O-X-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin, porté, entre autres, par l’épouse d’Alexandre le Grand.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Roxane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alexandre s’étant rendu maître de ce lieu [Sisimithre], y trouva la belle Roxane, fille d’Oxyartes, & l’épousa, à ce que rapporte Plutarque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orxane
- roaxne
- roxaen
- roxnae
- roxxane
- rroxane
- rxoane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Roxane - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).