rouleur
\ʁu.lœʁ\
The verdict
“rouleur” is an uncommon French word, ranked #77,889 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,889
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Celui qui fait rouler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rouleur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouleur is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.lœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #77,889 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for rouleur 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 rouleur, spelled R-O-U-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait rouler.
- 2Celui qui avance en véhicule.
- 3Ouvrier qui déplace des tonneaux en les faisant rouler. Ouvrier qui déplace des charges avec une brouette, un chariot à main, etc.
- 4Ouvrier chargé de pousser les wagonnets de charbon dans une mine.
- 5Ouvrier qui change souvent d’employeur, de lieu de travail.
- 6Charançon de la vigne.
- 7Navire sujet au roulis.
- 8Cycliste très performant sur les grandes distances.
- 9Gros tambour de l'on place entre les genoux et que l'on frappe avec les deux mains, typique de l'île de La Réunion.
- 10Appareil de manutention, consistant en une plaque ou un cadre monté sur des roulettes, destiné à déplacer des charges lourdes.
- 11Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-L-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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