rouleau
French, noun/ʁu.lo/
rouleau is spelled R-O-U-L-E-A-U (7 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rouleau is a French masculine noun meaning “roll, roller” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Objet de forme cylindrique oblongue”.
What does rouleau mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineroll, roller
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Objet de forme cylindrique oblongue. 2. Bande de papier, d’étoffe, de métal, etc., enroulée sur elle-même ou sur une tige cylindrique. 3. Bigoudi. 4. Type de coiffure féminine comportant des mèches enroulées.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rouleau
- rouleaux plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rouleau?
- /ʁu.lo/
- \ʁu.lo\
- [ʁu.lo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rouleau
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rouleau in French?
rouleau appears 5.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).