roulement
\ʁul.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“roulement” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #15,240 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,240
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mouvement de ce qui roule.
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 | roulement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁul.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roulement” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roulement is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulement, with forms such as "orulement", "roluement", and "rouelment". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "roulent", "rudement", "royalement", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is roulement, spelled R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Mouvement de ce qui roule.
- 2Bruit produit par ce qui roule.
- 3Bruit formé par un ou par plusieurs tambours que l’on bat continuellement à coups égaux et pressés.
- 4Bruit lointain du tonnerre.
- 5Action de se remplacer alternativement dans certaines fonctions.
- 6Palier 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
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orulement,roluement,rouelment,rouleemnt,roulemennt,roulementt,roulemetn,roulemment,roulemnet,roullement,roulmeent,rroulement,ruolement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulement - 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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Using “roulement”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁul.mɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “roulent” - see the side-by-side comparison. roulement vs roulent
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.