roulaient
\ʁu.lɛ\
The verdict
“roulaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,508. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,508
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulaient · roulaient · French
roulaient · rank #41,508 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,508
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ros
Nearest frequency peer: ros (-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 « roulaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- roadster
roadster
58,496 corpus weight
- Roberval
Roberval
58,495 corpus weight
- ros
ros
58,494 corpus weight
- roulaient
roulaient
58,493 corpus weight
- rouquin
rouquin
58,492 corpus weight
- récidivistes
récidivistes
58,490 corpus weight
What this shows « roulaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,508 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around roulaient (IPA \ʁu.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,508 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulaient, with forms such as "orulaient", "roluaient", and "roualient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "roulant", "roulent", "roulait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 roulaient, spelled R-O-U-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roulaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son premier cep l’émut : quand elle fit sauter le lien de paille, elle eut l’impression de déceinturer une fille, après quoi, écartant les sarments, porteurs de grappes, fourrageant entre les grosses feuilles cuirassées de sulfate, elle eut la sensation gênante de violer de ses propres mains et de fouiller elle ne savait quels ovaires dont elle ramenait l…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orulaient
- roluaient
- roualient
- roulaeint
- roulaiennt
- roulaientt
- roulaietn
- roulainet
- rouliaent
- roullaient
- rroulaient
- ruolaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).