roll
\rɔl\
The verdict
“roll” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,239) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,239
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chariot à quatre roulettes fermé par des grilles servant à transporter des marchandises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roll · roll · French
roll · rank #15,239 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,239
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH RMC
Nearest frequency peer: RMC (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « roll »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- rigoureuse
rigoureuse
84,765 corpus weight
- rivaliser
rivaliser
84,764 corpus weight
- RMC
RMC
84,763 corpus weight
- roll
roll
84,762 corpus weight
- roulement
roulement
84,761 corpus weight
- roumain
roumain
84,760 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « roll » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roll |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \rɔl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « roll »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for roll is neighbouring look-alikes ("roy", "RTL", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \rɔl\. Frequency #15,239 among 5,742 “R” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for roll, with forms such as "orll", "rlol", and "rol". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "roy", "RTL", "Rom", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 roll, spelled R-O-L-L.
Definition
- 1Chariot à quatre roulettes fermé par des grilles servant à transporter des marchandises.
- 2Support, bobine nue, destinée à recevoir du fil. Ce nom est aussi celui de la bobine pleine.
- 3Dans le domaine de l’emballage nom donné à un gros rouleau destiner à emballer (rouleau de papier, de film étirable, etc.).
- 4Unité contenant 180 morues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un roll est un casier sur roulettes permettant de livrer divers types de produits.
Un film plastique est tendu sur un ensemble de marchandises (le plus souvent sur palette ou dans un roll) puis exposé à une source de chaleur. L’action de la chaleur fait se rétracter le film, ce qui permet de solidariser les marchandises entre-elles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orll
- rlol
- rol
- rroll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roll - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).