roulade
\ʁu.lad\
The verdict
“roulade” is uncommon French (frequency #71,030 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,030
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de rouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulade · roulade · French
roulade · rank #71,030 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,030
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Roum
Nearest frequency peer: Roum (+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 « roulade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Rinaldo
Rinaldo
28,975 corpus weight
- risibles
risibles
28,974 corpus weight
- rivista
rivista
28,973 corpus weight
- roulade
roulade
28,971 corpus weight
- Roum
Roum
28,970 corpus weight
- récurer
récurer
28,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roulade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roulade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roulade is uncommon French at frequency #71,030 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for roulade in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is roulade, spelled R-O-U-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Action de rouler.
- 2Vocalise formée de trilles, de notes légères et rapides.
- 3Fine tranche de viande, de pâte ou de poisson enroulée sur elle-même ou autour d’une garniture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roulade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfants ont fait une roulade le long de la pente.
Et dans ce rire acharné, grandissant, dans ce rire pareil à un réveille-matin qui se détraque, j’entendis ces mots, coupés de roulades sonores et de fusées sifflantes : – L’colporteux !… hé, hé, hé !… L’sacré colporteux !… hi ! hi ! hi !
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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