premier rôle
\pʁə.mje ʁol\
The verdict
“premier rôle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acteur principal ou actrice principale d'un film ou d'une pièce de théâtre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-premier-role · premier rôle · French
premier rôle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | premier rôle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʁə.mje ʁol\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
premier rôle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʁə.mje ʁol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how premier rôle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans Nikita de Luc Besson, le premier rôle est tenu par Anne Parillaud.
Ce pays aura joué le premier rôle lors des négociations.
Synonyms
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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.