roulette russe
\ʁu.lɛt ʁys\
The verdict
“roulette russe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jeu consistant à mettre une cartouche dans le barillet d’un revolver, puis à le tourner de manière aléatoire, et à pointer ce revolver sur sa tempe avant d’actionner la queue de détente. Le joueur ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulette russe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lɛt ʁys\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “roulette russe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for roulette russe is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.lɛt ʁys\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for roulette russe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 roulette russe, spelled R-O-U-L-E-T-T-E- -R-U-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu consistant à mettre une cartouche dans le barillet d’un revolver, puis à le tourner de manière aléatoire, et à pointer ce revolver sur sa tempe avant d’actionner la queue de détente. Le joueur gagne si la chambre ne contenait pas la cartouche, et meurt sinon.
- 2Décision importante, voire vitale, mais prise à la légère.
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Using “roulette russe”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-L-E-T-T-E- -R-U-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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