roulement à billes
\ʁul.mɑ̃ a bij\
The verdict
“roulement à billes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Composant mécanique, utilisant des billes, optimisant la rotation d'un axe ou d'un arbre en substituant un roulement à un frottement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulement à billes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁul.mɑ̃ a bij\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roulement à billes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
roulement à billes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁul.mɑ̃ a bij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Composant mécanique, utilisant des billes, optimisant la rotation d'un axe ou d'un arbre en substituant un roulement à un frottement.".
roulement à billes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is roulement à billes, spelled R-O-U-L-E-M-E-N-T- -À- -B-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Composant mécanique, utilisant des billes, optimisant la rotation d'un axe ou d'un arbre en substituant un roulement à un frottement.
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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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Using “roulement à billes”
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- -À- -B-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁul.mɑ̃ a bij\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.