roulette
\ʁu.lɛt\
The verdict
“roulette” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,974 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,974
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite roue de bois, de fer, de cuivre, etc., servant à faire rouler les objets auxquels elle est attachée.
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 | roulette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roulette” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roulette is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,974 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulette, with forms such as "orulette", "roluette", and "roueltte". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "roulotte", "rouverte", "roulettes", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is roulette, spelled R-O-U-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite roue de bois, de fer, de cuivre, etc., servant à faire rouler les objets auxquels elle est attachée.
- 2Instrument de fer en forme de petite roue pour tracer des filets.
- 3Instrument en forme de petite roue, à l’usage des graveurs, des pâtissiers, des cordonniers, des corroyeurs, des brodeurs, des dentistes, etc.
- 4Jeu de hasard, où une petite boule d’ivoire, lancée dans un cercle divisé en soixante-seize cases numérotées en rouge et en noir, détermine le gain, suivant le numéro et la couleur de la case où elle s’arrête.
- 5Appareil qui sert à ce jeu.
- 6Cycloïde ; ligne courbe que décrit un point de la circonférence d’un cercle qui roule sur un plan.
- 7Fraise dentaire.
- 8Paire de roulettes qui se fixe à l’arrière des vélos au début de l'apprentissage.
- 9Dribble très technique consistant à entraîner le ballon en le faisant rouler sous le pied tout en pivotant sur soi-même de manière à contourner un joueur de l’équipe adverse.
- 10Rouleau de timbres-poste destinés à alimenter les distributeurs automatiques. Les timbres y sont dentelés sur seulement 2 côtés. Cette présentation, aujourd'hui disparue, fut inventée en 1900.
- 11Petit cylindre de plastique dur monté sur un manche qui sert à bien faire coller en l’aplatissant le bord d'un papier à tapisser.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orulette,roluette,roueltte,roulete,rouletet,roullette,roultete,rroulette,ruolette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulette - 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 “roulette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-L-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁu.lɛt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “roulotte” - see the side-by-side comparison. roulette vs roulotte
- 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.