roue libre
\ʁu libʁ\
The verdict
“roue libre” 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
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif permettant à un moteur d’entraîner un mécanisme sans être entraîné par lui.
| 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) |
Where “roue libre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roue libre is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu libʁ\. 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.
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.
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 libre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-E- -L-I-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁu libʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.