rouler
French, verb/ʁu.le/
rouler is spelled R-O-U-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,025th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rouler is a French verb meaning “to roll” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire avancer une chose en la faisant tourner sur elle-même”.
What does rouler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to roll
- 2
to revolve
- 3
colloquialto go (of events, to proceed)
Ça roule bien chez mon ami.
- 4
to work, to function
- 5
to ride; to drive (a vehicle)
rouler à vélo sans les mains
- 6
colloquialto dupe, to trick
se faire rouler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire avancer une chose en la faisant tourner sur elle-même. 2. Tourner de côté et d’autre avec violence, effort ou affectation, en parlant des yeux. 3. Avancer comme dans un roulement. 4. Méditer.
noun: 1. Gros instrument à percussion fait à partir d’un tronc évidé ou d’un tonneau utilisé dans le maloya.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rouler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- roulant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- roulé participle past
- roule first-person indicative present
- roules indicative present second-person
- roulons first-person indicative plural
- roulez indicative plural present
- roulent indicative plural present
- roulais first-person imperfect indicative
- roulait imperfect indicative singular
- roulions first-person imperfect indicative
- rouliez imperfect indicative plural
- roulaient imperfect indicative plural
- roulai first-person historic indicative
- roulas historic indicative past
- roula historic indicative past
- roulâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rouler?
- /ʁu.le/
- \ʁu.le\
- [ʁu.le]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rouler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rouler in French?
rouler appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).