roulage
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,700
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
roulage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Transport des marchandises par voiture. Pronounced \ʁu.laʒ\. Often confused with roulé and roulée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roulage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.laʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,700 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for roulage, with forms such as "orulage", "roluage", and "roualge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "roulé", "roulée", "roulant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is roulage, spelled R-O-U-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Transport des marchandises par voiture.
- 2Établissement où l’on se charge de ce transport.
- 3Technique de chargement ou de déchargement des navires par rampes d'accès qu'empruntent tous engins sur roues, automoteurs, tractés ou poussés.
- 4Fait de déplacer un avion au sol en utilisant le même mode de propulsion que dans l’air.
- 5Façon culturale destinée à tasser légèrement le sol avant ou après le semi.
- 6Action de courber une tôle par déformation plastique avec une rouleuse.
- 7Conduite de véhicule.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orulage,roluage,roualge,roulaeg,roulagge,roulgae,roullage,rroulage,ruolage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for roulage
Misspelling Variants of "roulage"
Frequency rank: #35,700 in French
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