trottoir roulant
\tʁɔ.twaʁ ʁu.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“trottoir roulant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de travelator : un tapis roulant pour piétons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-trottoir-roulant · trottoir roulant · French
trottoir roulant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trottoir roulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁɔ.twaʁ ʁu.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
trottoir roulant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁɔ.twaʁ ʁu.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de travelator : un tapis roulant pour piétons.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for trottoir roulant, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is trottoir roulant, spelled T-R-O-T-T-O-I-R- -R-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de travelator : un tapis roulant pour piétons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trottoir roulant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est immense, le trottoir roulant de la station Montparnasse. On s’y engage avec la même appréhension que sur les escalators des magasins.
This word in other languages
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.