neige roulée
\nɛʒ ʁu.le\
The verdict
“neige roulée” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Précipitation de particules de glace blanche et opaque qui tombent d’un nuage et qui sont en général coniques ou arrondies et dont le diamètre peut atteindre 5 mm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | neige roulée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɛʒ ʁu.le\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “neige roulée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for neige roulée is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nɛʒ ʁu.le\. 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: "Précipitation de particules de glace blanche et opaque qui tombent d’un nuage et qui sont en général coniques ou arrondies et dont le diamètre peut atteindre 5 mm.".
No misspelling variants are generated for neige roulée 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 neige roulée, spelled N-E-I-G-E- -R-O-U-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Précipitation de particules de glace blanche et opaque qui tombent d’un nuage et qui sont en général coniques ou arrondies et dont le diamètre peut atteindre 5 mm.
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Using “neige roulée”
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- The one correct French spelling is N-E-I-G-E- -R-O-U-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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