roulades
\ʁu.lad\
The verdict
“roulades” is uncommon French (frequency #86,131 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,131
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de roulade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulades · roulades · French
roulades · rank #86,131 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,131
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rouche
Nearest frequency peer: rouche (-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 « roulades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- romandes
romandes
13,875 corpus weight
- roos
roos
13,873 corpus weight
- rouche
rouche
13,871 corpus weight
- roulades
roulades
13,870 corpus weight
- rueda
rueda
13,868 corpus weight
- ruminant
ruminant
13,866 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roulades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roulades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roulades is uncommon French at frequency #86,131 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de roulade.".
roulades doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 roulades, spelled R-O-U-L-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de roulade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roulades appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand le train est lancé, on ne l’arrête plus : voici notre bonhomme au Courrier de Paris. Il rédige sa chronique après le spectacle. Puis Minerve, Le Canard Enchaîné » où il coincouine sa critique littéraire, La Gazette des lettres où il peaufine sa manière d’écrire : « le stylo c’est l’audace » et poursuit « Ventre à terre. A pleins étriers », son comba…
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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