jouer un rôle

verb

The verdict

“jouer un rôle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Incarner une personne dans un jeu.

Key facts for jouer un rôle
PropertyValue
Headwordjouer un rôle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “jouer un rôle” sits in French frequency

jouer un rôle falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jouer un rôle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

jouer un rôle has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 jouer un rôle, spelled J-O-U-E-R- -U-N- -R-Ô-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Incarner une personne dans un jeu.
  2. 2
    Participer, rentrer dans la composition.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jouer un rôle"?
"jouer un rôle" is spelled J-O-U-E-R- -U-N- -R-Ô-L-E.
What does "jouer un rôle" mean?
As a verb, "jouer un rôle" means: Incarner une personne dans un jeu.
What language does "jouer un rôle" come from?
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Using “jouer un rôle”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is J-O-U-E-R- -U-N- -R-Ô-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list