fauteuil roulant
\fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“fauteuil roulant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fauteuil roulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fauteuil roulant” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fauteuil roulant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées.".
fauteuil roulant doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is fauteuil roulant, spelled F-A-U-T-E-U-I-L- -R-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Matériel en forme de fauteuil, destiné au déplacement des personnes à mobilité réduite ou paralysées.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “fauteuil roulant”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-U-T-E-U-I-L- -R-O-U-L-A-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fo.tœj ʁu.lɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.