roula
\ʁu.la\
The verdict
“roula” is uncommon French (frequency #70,176 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,176
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roula · roula · French
roula · rank #70,176 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,176
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rotschild
Nearest frequency peer: Rotschild (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « roula »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- roleplay
roleplay
29,828 corpus weight
- rosées
rosées
29,827 corpus weight
- Rotschild
Rotschild
29,826 corpus weight
- roula
roula
29,825 corpus weight
- routinier
routinier
29,824 corpus weight
- ruinées
ruinées
29,822 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roula » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roula » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roula is uncommon French at frequency #70,176 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁu.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rouler.".
roula doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is roula, spelled R-O-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rouler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rojanvier ronchonna, rota et roula une nouvelle prise de gris dans une feuille d’OCB.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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