fauteuil roulant

/\fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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fauteuil roulant is aFrenchnoun. It means: Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées. Pronounced \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\.

Key facts for fauteuil roulant
PropertyValue
Headwordfauteuil roulant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fauteuil roulant is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fauteuil roulant is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées.".

No misspelling variants are generated for fauteuil roulant 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 fauteuil roulant, spelled F-A-U-T-E-U-I-L- -R-O-U-L-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fauteuil roulant"?
"fauteuil roulant" is spelled F-A-U-T-E-U-I-L- -R-O-U-L-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\.
What does "fauteuil roulant" mean?
As a noun, "fauteuil roulant" means: Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées.
How do you pronounce "fauteuil roulant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fauteuil roulant" is \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fauteuil roulant" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.