roue à aubes
\ʁu a ob\
The verdict
“roue à aubes” 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) - Roue de construction particulière, munie de pales qui captent et transmettent l’énergie de l’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roue-a-aubes · roue à aubes · French
roue à aubes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | roue à aubes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu a ob\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
roue à aubes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu a ob\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for roue à aubes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 roue à aubes, spelled R-O-U-E- -À- -A-U-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Roue de construction particulière, munie de pales qui captent et transmettent l’énergie de l’eau.
- 2Sorte de roue munie d’aubes articulées ou fixes et servant de propulseur à un navire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roue à aubes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On aura donc toujours plus d’avantage, lorsqu’on voudra ménager l’eau, à se servir de roues à augets, en les faisant tourner lentement, qu’à employer des roues à aubes.
Ce sont les moulins à roue pendante, dans lesquels la roue à aubes, mais aussi l’arbre, le rouet et la lanterne qui lui sont le plus souvent solidaires, sont montés sur un chassis.
This word in other languages
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.