What does ルート mean?
ルート is a Japanese noun meaning “route; path” in English. It can also be translated as “channel (e.g. sales, distribution)” depending on context. It is written as ルート in hiragana, and ruuto in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N3 vocabulary.
Example sentence
Windows系ＯＳではアドミニストレーターアカウントがルートに相当する。
With Windows OS systems 'administrator account' corresponds to 'root'.