roulantes
\ʁu.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“roulantes” is uncommon French (frequency #71,886 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,886
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de roulant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulantes · roulantes · French
roulantes · rank #71,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,886
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rottweiler
Nearest frequency peer: rottweiler (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « roulantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rol
rol
28,118 corpus weight
- rotatifs
rotatifs
28,117 corpus weight
- rottweiler
rottweiler
28,116 corpus weight
- roulantes
roulantes
28,115 corpus weight
- rouste
rouste
28,114 corpus weight
- réflexivité
réflexivité
28,113 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roulantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ʁu.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,886 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roulantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roulantes is uncommon French at frequency #71,886 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ʁu.lɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de roulant.".
roulantes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roulantes, spelled R-O-U-L-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de roulant.
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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