premier rôle
\pʁə.mje ʁol\
The verdict
“premier rôle” 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) - Acteur principal ou actrice principale d'un film ou d'une pièce de théâtre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | premier rôle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mje ʁol\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “premier rôle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for premier rôle is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁə.mje ʁol\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for premier rôle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is premier rôle, spelled P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -R-Ô-L-E.
Definition
- 1Acteur principal ou actrice principale d'un film ou d'une pièce de théâtre.
- 2Personnes ou groupe de personnes occupant une place importante.
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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 “premier rôle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-M-I-E-R- -R-Ô-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁə.mje ʁol\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.