roulait
\ʁu.lɛ\
The verdict
“roulait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,973
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulait · roulait · French
roulait · rank #19,973 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,973
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rompt
Nearest frequency peer: rompt (-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 « roulait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Rohan
Rohan
80,031 corpus weight
- roller
roller
80,030 corpus weight
- rompt
rompt
80,029 corpus weight
- roulait
roulait
80,028 corpus weight
- roulette
roulette
80,027 corpus weight
- ruelles
ruelles
80,026 corpus weight
What this shows « roulait » 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 | roulait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁu.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around roulait (IPA \ʁu.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,973 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulait, with forms such as "orulait", "roluait", and "roualit". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "roulis", "roulant", "roumain", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roulait, spelled R-O-U-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rouler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roulait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fumait à la chaîne des cigarettes qu’il roulait entre ses doigts marqués de points maladroitement tatoués : souvenirs de taule.
Le grand indiaman craquait de tous ses bordages et roulait dans la mer...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orulait
- roluait
- roualit
- roulaitt
- roulati
- rouliat
- roullait
- rroulait
- ruolait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulait - 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).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).