roulais
\ʁu.lɛ\
The verdict
“roulais” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,290
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulais · roulais · French
roulais · rank #45,290 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,290
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosita
Nearest frequency peer: Rosita (-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 « roulais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rogner
rogner
54,714 corpus weight
- Rosita
Rosita
54,712 corpus weight
- roulais
roulais
54,711 corpus weight
- rugueuse
rugueuse
54,710 corpus weight
- récoltant
récoltant
54,709 corpus weight
- rédhibitoire
rédhibitoire
54,708 corpus weight
What this shows « roulais » 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 | roulais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #45,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around roulais (IPA \ʁu.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,290 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulais, with forms such as "orulais", "roluais", and "roualis". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "roulés", "roulis", "roulant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is roulais, spelled R-O-U-L-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how roulais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’avais acheté une vieille 4L dont les cardans exténués rendaient d’inquiétants sons de castagnettes et je roulais des journées entières sur des routes où la mort guettait à chaque virage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orulais
- roluais
- roualis
- roulaiss
- roulasi
- roulias
- roullais
- rroulais
- ruolais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulais - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).