rôle-clé
\ʁol.kle\
The verdict
“rôle-clé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rôle très important, fondamental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-role-cle · rôle-clé · French
rôle-clé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | rôle-clé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁol.kle\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
rôle-clé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁol.kle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rôle très important, fondamental.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rôle-clé in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rôle-clé, spelled R-Ô-L-E---C-L-É.
Definition
- 1Rôle très important, fondamental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rôle-clé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les centres dédiés au Covid long ont un rôle-clé pour les patients, qui se sentent enfin écoutés et légitimes, souligne le docteur Davido.
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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.