rôle
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rôle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁol\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Rouleau de papier, de parchemin, sur lequel on écrivait des actes, des titres.
- 2Les registres manuscrits des actes du parlement de l’Angleterre.
- 3Un feuillet ou deux pages d’écriture.
- 4Liste officielle.
- 5Liste sur laquelle on inscrit les causes dans l’ordre où elles doivent se plaider.
- 6Ce que doit réciter un acteur, dans une pièce de théâtre en particulier.
- 7Personnage représenté par l’acteur.
- 8Manière dont on agit dans les affaires du monde, dans certaines occasions, du personnage qu’on y fait, du caractère qu’on y montre.
- 9Fonction, emploi.
- 10Ancienne présentation des tabacs à priser ou à chiquer sous forme d'une ficelle de feuille de tabac tressée puis enroulée.
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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"
Frequency rank: #606 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: