roue de secours
\ʁu də sə.kuʁ\
The verdict
“roue de secours” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roue supplémentaire destinée à remplacer une roue dont le pneu viendrait à crever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roue-de-secours · roue de secours · French
roue de secours · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « roue de secours » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roue de secours is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu də sə.kuʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roue de secours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est possible d’échouer dans un allaitement au sein. Ce n'est pas très grave, puisque le biberon est là, comme une roue de secours.
Le crédit à la consommation est devenu la roue de secours de 40 % des ménages québécois … contraints de dépenser plus que leurs revenu disponible pour les dépenses courantes.
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.