roulement
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.
| 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) |
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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
- 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.
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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"
Frequency rank: #15,240 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our French index: