roue de secours
\ʁu də sə.kuʁ\
The verdict
“roue de secours” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Roue supplémentaire destinée à remplacer une roue dont le pneu viendrait à crever.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roue de secours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu də sə.kuʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roue de secours” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roue de secours is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu də sə.kuʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
roue de secours doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roue de secours, spelled R-O-U-E- -D-E- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Roue supplémentaire destinée à remplacer une roue dont le pneu viendrait à crever.
- 2Solution de rechange.
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.
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Using “roue de secours”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-E- -D-E- -S-E-C-O-U-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁu də sə.kuʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.