roulage

\ʁu.laʒ\

/\ʁu.laʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“roulage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,700
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transport des marchandises par voiture.

Corpus desk

Index FR-roulage · roulage · French

roulage · rank #35,700 · 9 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,700
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rougeâtre

Nearest frequency peer: rougeâtre (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « roulage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

roulage vs roulé
57% similar
roulage vs roulée
71% similar
roulage vs roulant
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for roulage
PropertyValue
Headwordroulage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁu.laʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,700
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.roulagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « rougeâtre » (#35,699), « roulée » (#35,701), « ronces » (#35,698). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « roulage » est au #35,700. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around roulage (IPA \ʁu.laʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,700 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulage, with forms such as "orulage", "roluage", and "roualge". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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 documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is roulage, spelled R-O-U-L-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Transport des marchandises par voiture.
  2. 2
    Établissement où l’on se charge de ce transport.
  3. 3
    Technique de chargement ou de déchargement des navires par rampes d'accès qu'empruntent tous engins sur roues, automoteurs, tractés ou poussés.
  4. 4
    Fait de déplacer un avion au sol en utilisant le même mode de propulsion que dans l’air.
  5. 5
    Façon culturale destinée à tasser légèrement le sol avant ou après le semi.
  6. 6
    Action de courber une tôle par déformation plastique avec une rouleuse.
  7. 7
    Conduite de véhicule.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how roulage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il ne lui restait plus rien, pas une pièce d’un franc, pas une pièce de deux sous. Il avait vidé sa monnaie dans les mains des gens à pourboire, porteurs du roulage ou facteurs des messageries, et il n’avait pas même de quoi prendre un verre de groseille.
  2. Par voie de terre, on évaluait à 70.000 voyageurs et 60.000 tonnes de marchandises la circulation qui profitait du roulage ordinaire, du roulage accéléré ou des diligences.

Synonyms

charroyagetaxiage

This word in other languages

roll on-roll off(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orulage
  • roluage
  • roualge
  • roulaeg
  • roulagge
  • roulgae
  • roullage
  • rroulage
  • ruolage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

orulage2roluage2roualge2roulaeg2roulagge1roulgae2roullage1rroulage1
Edit distance from "roulage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roulage"?
"roulage" is spelled R-O-U-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁu.laʒ\.
What does "roulage" mean?
As a noun, "roulage" means: Transport des marchandises par voiture.
What words are commonly confused with "roulage"?
"roulage" is commonly confused with "roulé", "roulée", "roulant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "roulage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roulage" is \ʁu.laʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roulage" come from?
"roulage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "roulage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

résulté#35,710sablier#35,713rendras#35,686sauriez#35,717

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

ronces9 variantssiamois9 variantsraptor9 variantspuisant9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list