roulier
\ʁu.lje\
The verdict
“roulier” is uncommon French (frequency #88,049 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,049
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voiturier par terre, qui transporte des marchandises sur des chariots, charrettes, fourgons et autres voitures roulantes de cette sorte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-roulier · roulier · French
roulier · rank #88,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,049
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH romanche
Nearest frequency peer: romanche (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « roulier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- riquiqui
riquiqui
11,957 corpus weight
- rivette
rivette
11,956 corpus weight
- Rizzuto
Rizzuto
11,955 corpus weight
- romanche
romanche
11,954 corpus weight
- roulier
roulier
11,952 corpus weight
- ruisseler
ruisseler
11,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « roulier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | roulier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « roulier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
roulier is uncommon French at frequency #88,049 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁu.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for roulier in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is roulier, spelled R-O-U-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Voiturier par terre, qui transporte des marchandises sur des chariots, charrettes, fourgons et autres voitures roulantes de cette sorte.
- 2Navire conçu pour le chargement et le déchargement par roulage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how roulier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est minuit, la femme du roulier S’en va de porte en porte, de taverne en taverne, Pour chercher son mari, tireli, avec une lanterne (bis).
Le gars aux biques portait, sous une limousine de roulier, un bourgeron bleu serré à la taille par une ceinture rouge qui maintenait un pantalon de velours à l'instar des charbonniers auvergnats, […].
Synonyms
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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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