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No rooves is plural of roof in English English. Same as leaf and leaves. Americans say roofs.

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It’s cherry-picking if you only use one dictionary. It’s present in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rooves

Ultimately I’d never use it. It’s archaic and not in common enough use generally to feel good to use. Similar to monkies as the archaic version of monkeys.

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