bande de roulement
\bɑ̃d də ʁul.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“bande de roulement” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bande de gomme épaisse en contact avec la route et entourant le pneumatique d'une roue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bande de roulement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɑ̃d də ʁul.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bande de roulement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bande de roulement is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɑ̃d də ʁul.mɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bande de roulement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 bande de roulement, spelled B-A-N-D-E- -D-E- -R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bande de gomme épaisse en contact avec la route et entourant le pneumatique d'une roue.
- 2Partie de la roue en contact avec le rail.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-N-D-E- -D-E- -R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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