grande roue
\ɡʁɑ̃d ʁu\
The verdict
“grande roue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manège forain en forme de roue verticale, tournant lentement afin de permettre d’admirer le paysage depuis la hauteur des toits des immeubles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grande-roue · grande roue · French
grande roue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grande roue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d ʁu\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grande roue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grande roue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃d ʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manège forain en forme de roue verticale, tournant lentement afin de permettre d’admirer le paysage depuis la hauteur des toits des immeubles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grande roue, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is grande roue, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -R-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Manège forain en forme de roue verticale, tournant lentement afin de permettre d’admirer le paysage depuis la hauteur des toits des immeubles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grande roue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout en bas de l’avenue, un immense manège domine le jardin des Tuileries, derrière la place de la Concorde. On aperçoit même les nacelles de la grande roue se balancer lentement.
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.