roue libre
\ʁu libʁ\
The verdict
“roue libre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dispositif permettant à un moteur d’entraîner un mécanisme sans être entraîné par lui.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roue-libre · roue libre · French
roue libre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 libre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu libʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
roue libre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu libʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for roue libre, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is roue libre, spelled R-O-U-E- -L-I-B-R-E.
Definition
- 1Dispositif permettant à un moteur d’entraîner un mécanisme sans être entraîné par lui.
- 2Dispositif évitant la rotation continue de la transmission permettant ainsi au cycliste de ne pas pédaler tout le temps, inventé en 1898.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roue libre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un embrayage à roue libre, combiné avec un enclenchement à clabots relie l’arbre du frein auxiliaire à l’arbre principal du treuil.
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.