Which to use
“rotary” is a noun and “rôtir” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #49,921
- “rotary” frequency rank
- #49,346
- “rôtir” frequency rank
- 99267
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rotary | rôtir |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Type de matériel de forage rotatif. | Faire cuire de la viande à un feu vif, de manière que le dessus soit croustillant et que l’intérieur reste tendre. |
Letter map: rotary vs rôtir
Shared letters muted; letters that set rotary and rôtir apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. rotary runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against rôtir's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for rotary / rôtir
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rotary is anoun and rôtiraverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 99267, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rotary is recorded at frequency rank #49,921, classified as anoun. rôtir is at rank #49,346, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁo.tiʁ\.
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 99267, this pair ranks #33 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of rotary vs rôtir
Shared letters: rt. Private to "rotary": aoy. Private to "rôtir": iô.
"rotary" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "rôtir" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- rotary ← ortary · roatry · rotarry · rotaryy · rotayr · rotray · rottary · rrotary
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "rotary" for "rôtir" ever safe?
Which is more common, "rotary" or "rôtir"?
What to do next
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "rotary" and "rôtir".
- Full dictionary entry for "rotary" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rôtir" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #33 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rotary" and "rôtir" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rote vs rôtir". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #33 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.