roue dentée

/\ʁu dɑ̃.te\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

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roue dentée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Roue munie de dents sur sa périphérie et tournant sur un axe fixe, utilisée en particulier dans les engrenages. Pronounced \ʁu dɑ̃.te\.

Key facts for roue dentée
PropertyValue
Headwordroue dentée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁu dɑ̃.te\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

roue dentée is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for roue dentée is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu dɑ̃.te\. 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.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for roue dentée in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roue dentée, spelled R-O-U-E- -D-E-N-T-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Roue munie de dents sur sa périphérie et tournant sur un axe fixe, utilisée en particulier dans les engrenages.
  2. 2
    Meuble représentant dans les armoiries une roue dont le pourtour est garni de dents. À rapprocher de engrenage, roue d’engrenage, roue de moulin, roue de Sainte-Catherine et roue d’horloge.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roue dentée"?
"roue dentée" is spelled R-O-U-E- -D-E-N-T-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁu dɑ̃.te\.
What does "roue dentée" mean?
As a noun, "roue dentée" means: Roue munie de dents sur sa périphérie et tournant sur un axe fixe, utilisée en particulier dans les engrenages.
How do you pronounce "roue dentée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roue dentée" is \ʁu dɑ̃.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roue dentée" come from?
"roue dentée" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.