rouleau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,065
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
rouleau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet de forme cylindrique oblongue. Pronounced \ʁu.lo\. Often confused with rouler and roulez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouleau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouleau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.lo\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,065 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for rouleau, with forms such as "oruleau", "rolueau", and "rouelau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "rouler", "roulez", "roulés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rouleau, spelled R-O-U-L-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet de forme cylindrique oblongue.
- 2Bande de papier, d’étoffe, de métal, etc., enroulée sur elle-même ou sur une tige cylindrique.
- 3Bigoudi.
- 4Type de coiffure féminine comportant des mèches enroulées.
- 5Objet cylindrique servant à rouler, à étendre, à niveler un matériau, une pâte.
- 6Cylindre de bois sur lequel coulait une composition spéciale et qui servait à encrer les formes.
- 7Ellipse de rouleau compresseur, engin de travaux publics muni d’un rouleau (3) métallique et destiné à niveler le sol.
- 8Outil de travaux aratoires.
- 9Rondin de bois cylindriques sur lesquelles on fait rouler des fardeaux.
- 10Cylindre rotatif sur paliers, libre ou entraîné, servant de support pour des éléments mobiles en vue de les manutentionner ou de les guider.
- 11Tiges cylindriques ou bombées, le plus souvent en acier spécial, équipant les roulements à rouleaux.
- 12Vague déferlante sur une grande longueur.
- 13Cylindre sur lequel étaient gravés des sons destinés à être entendus sur un phonographe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oruleau,rolueau,rouelau,roulaeu,rouleua,roulleau,rrouleau,ruoleau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rouleau
Misspelling Variants of "rouleau"
Frequency rank: #10,065 in French
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