rôle

/\ʁol\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#606

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

rôle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rouleau de papier, de parchemin, sur lequel on écrivait des actes, des titres. Pronounced \ʁol\. It ranks #606 in French word frequency. Often confused with rue and roy.

Key facts for rôle
PropertyValue
Headwordrôle
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁol\
Letters4
Frequency rank#606
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rôle in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rôle is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁol\. Corpus data places it at rank #606 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for rôle, with forms such as "rlôe", "role", and "rrôle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rue", "roy", "RTL", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 rôle, spelled R-Ô-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rouleau de papier, de parchemin, sur lequel on écrivait des actes, des titres.
  2. 2
    Les registres manuscrits des actes du parlement de l’Angleterre.
  3. 3
    Un feuillet ou deux pages d’écriture.
  4. 4
    Liste officielle.
  5. 5
    Liste sur laquelle on inscrit les causes dans l’ordre où elles doivent se plaider.
  6. 6
    Ce que doit réciter un acteur, dans une pièce de théâtre en particulier.
  7. 7
    Personnage représenté par l’acteur.
  8. 8
    Manière dont on agit dans les affaires du monde, dans certaines occasions, du personnage qu’on y fait, du caractère qu’on y montre.
  9. 9
    Fonction, emploi.
  10. 10
    Ancienne présentation des tabacs à priser ou à chiquer sous forme d'une ficelle de feuille de tabac tressée puis enroulée.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rlôe,role,rrôle,rôel,rôlle,ôrle

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rôle

Misspelling Variants of "rôle"

rlôe4role4rrôle5rôel4rôlle5ôrle4
Misspelling Variants of "rôle"

Frequency rank: #606 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rôle"?
"rôle" is spelled R-Ô-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁol\.
What does "rôle" mean?
As a noun, "rôle" means: Rouleau de papier, de parchemin, sur lequel on écrivait des actes, des titres.
What words are commonly confused with "rôle"?
"rôle" is commonly confused with "rue", "roy", "RTL". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rôle"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rôle" is \ʁol\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rôle" come from?
"rôle" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.