au bout du rouleau
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18 characters
Language
French
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au bout du rouleau is anFrenchadj. It means: Moralement épuisé, découragé (désigne plus précisément le découragement le plus total). Être désespéré d'une situation, en avoir marre. Pronounced \o bu dy ʁu.lo\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | au bout du rouleau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \o bu dy ʁu.lo\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for au bout du rouleau is 18 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o bu dy ʁu.lo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for au bout du rouleau in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is au bout du rouleau, spelled A-U- -B-O-U-T- -D-U- -R-O-U-L-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Moralement épuisé, découragé (désigne plus précisément le découragement le plus total). Être désespéré d'une situation, en avoir marre.
- 2Ruiné ; sans le sou.
- 3Ayant épuisé tous ses moyens.
- 4À l'article de la mort, à ses derniers moments.
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