roulotte

\ʁu.lɔt\

/\ʁu.lɔt\/ noun

The verdict

“roulotte” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,292. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,292
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande voiture où logeaient les forains et les bohémiens.

Corpus desk

Index FR-roulotte · roulotte · French

roulotte · rank #34,292 · 9 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,292
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH Rodrigues

Nearest frequency peer: Rodrigues (-1 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulotte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « roulotte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

roulotte vs roulette
88% similar
roulotte vs roulante
75% similar
roulotte vs roulettes
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for roulotte
PropertyValue
Headwordroulotte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁu.lɔt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#34,292
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « roulotte »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).roulottese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Rodrigues » (#34,291), « Rochester » (#34,290), « rituelle » (#34,289). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « roulotte » est au #34,292. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around roulotte (IPA \ʁu.lɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,292 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for roulotte, with forms such as "orulotte", "roluotte", and "roullotte". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "roulette", "roulante", "roulettes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is roulotte, spelled R-O-U-L-O-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Grande voiture où logeaient les forains et les bohémiens.
  2. 2
    Voiture de toute espèce ; charrette.
  3. 3
    Lieu et période de temps (maximum trois jours) où un détenu peut recevoir son conjoint ou sa conjointe en privé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how roulotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais quitter le cirque, quitter la grande roue en marche, c’était déjà mourir un peu, passer de l’autre côté, dans la lumière blanche et froide du jour, alors que nous autres ne vivons que dans l’attente du soir et de la lumière chaude des projecteurs, des bougies fébriles des roulottes ou de l’éclat fantastique du feu de camp, au bivouac des grands chemins.
  2. − Vois-tu ce vieux ? − Quel vieux ? − Là, dans la première roulotte de la noce, de notre côté.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • orulotte
  • roluotte
  • roullotte
  • roulote
  • roulotet
  • roultote
  • rouoltte
  • rroulotte
  • ruolotte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roulotte - 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.

orulotte2roluotte2roullotte1roulote1roulotet2roultote2rouoltte2rroulotte1
Edit distance from "roulotte"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roulotte"?
"roulotte" is spelled R-O-U-L-O-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁu.lɔt\.
What does "roulotte" mean?
As a noun, "roulotte" means: Grande voiture où logeaient les forains et les bohémiens.
What words are commonly confused with "roulotte"?
"roulotte" is commonly confused with "roulette", "roulante", "roulettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "roulotte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roulotte" is \ʁu.lɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roulotte" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "roulotte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list