roevsrohWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: roe is a noun, roh is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“roe” is a noun and “roh” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,003
“roe” frequency rank
#24,371
“roh” frequency rank
71374
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature roe roh
Definition Roue. Marque l’agacement, voire l’exaspération.

Letter map: roe vs roh

Shared letters muted; letters that set roe and roh apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
roe
3 ch
roh

Part-of-speech tell for roe / roh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: roe is anoun and rohanintj. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “roe” becomes h in “roh”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71374, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

roe is recorded at frequency rank #47,003, classified as anoun. roh is at rank #24,371, tagged as anintj, pronounced \ʁo\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 71374, this pair ranks #47,776 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of roe vs roh

Shared letters: or. Private to "roe": e. Private to "roh": h.

"roe" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "roh" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "roe" for "roh" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "roe" is a noun and "roh" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "roe" or "roh"?
"roh" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,371 in our French list, against #47,003 for "roe". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "roe" vs "roh" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "roe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "roh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #47,776 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "roe" and "roh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "roe vs roya". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #47,776 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list