roulement

/\ʁul.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,240

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

roulement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement de ce qui roule. Pronounced \ʁul.mɑ̃\. Often confused with roulent and rudement.

Key facts for roulement
PropertyValue
Headwordroulement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁul.mɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#15,240
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of roulement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for roulement is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁul.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,240 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for roulement, with forms such as "orulement", "roluement", and "rouelment". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "roulent", "rudement", "royalement", 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 roulement, spelled R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mouvement de ce qui roule.
  2. 2
    Bruit produit par ce qui roule.
  3. 3
    Bruit formé par un ou par plusieurs tambours que l’on bat continuellement à coups égaux et pressés.
  4. 4
    Bruit lointain du tonnerre.
  5. 5
    Action de se remplacer alternativement dans certaines fonctions.
  6. 6
    Palier à roulement : mécanisme, inventé en 1869, permettant à une pièce en rotation telle qu'une roue de tourner avec moins de frottement qu'avec un palier lisse : le glissement est remplacé par le roulement de billes ou de galets maintenus par une cage.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: orulement,roluement,rouelment,rouleemnt,roulemennt,roulementt,roulemetn,roulemment,roulemnet,roullement,roulmeent,rroulement,ruolement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for roulement

Misspelling Variants of "roulement"

orulement9roluement9rouelment9rouleemnt9roulemennt10roulementt10roulemetn9roulemment10
Misspelling Variants of "roulement"

Frequency rank: #15,240 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roulement"?
"roulement" is spelled R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁul.mɑ̃\.
What does "roulement" mean?
As a noun, "roulement" means: Mouvement de ce qui roule.
What words are commonly confused with "roulement"?
"roulement" is commonly confused with "roulent", "rudement", "royalement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "roulement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roulement" is \ʁul.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roulement" come from?
"roulement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.