roulement à aiguilles
\ʁul.mɑ̃ a ɛ.ɡɥij\
The verdict
“roulement à aiguilles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Composant mécanique, palier à roulement utilisant comme galets des aiguilles cylindriques, optimisant la rotation d'un axe ou d'un arbre en substituant un roulement compact à un frottement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulement à aiguilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁul.mɑ̃ a ɛ.ɡɥij\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roulement à aiguilles” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
roulement à aiguilles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁul.mɑ̃ a ɛ.ɡɥij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composant mécanique, palier à roulement utilisant comme galets des aiguilles cylindriques, optimisant la rotation d'un axe ou d'un arbre en substituant un roulement compact à un frottement.".
roulement à aiguilles has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is roulement à aiguilles, spelled R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T- -À- -A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Composant mécanique, palier à roulement utilisant comme galets des aiguilles cylindriques, optimisant la rotation d'un axe ou d'un arbre en substituant un roulement compact à un frottement.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T- -À- -A-I-G-U-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.