round robin
\ˈɹaʊnd ˈɹɒb.ɪn\
The verdict
“round robin” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pétition signée de manière circulaire afin de ne pas révéler l’ordre de signature.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | round robin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɹaʊnd ˈɹɒb.ɪn\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “round robin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for round robin is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈɹaʊnd ˈɹɒb.ɪn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for round robin 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 round robin, spelled R-O-U-N-D- -R-O-B-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pétition signée de manière circulaire afin de ne pas révéler l’ordre de signature.
- 2Tournoi à la ronde (dans lequel les participants s’affrontent à tour de rôle circulairement).
- 3Tourniquet.
- 4Essais, tests inter-laboratoires.
- 5Lettre envoyée avec une carte de vœux et dans laquelle on donne de ses nouvelles. La lettre est souvent envoyée à l’identique à plusieurs destinataires.
- 6Échange de biens circulaire, chaque personne envoyant un bien de valeur similaire à la personne suivante d’une liste.
- 7Le fait d’utiliser, avec un synthétiseur MIDI, des sons différents pour une même note jouée par le même instrument, afin d’atténuer le côté artificiel du résultat.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “round robin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-N-D- -R-O-B-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈɹaʊnd ˈɹɒb.ɪn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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