volet roulant
\vɔ.lɛ ʁu.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“volet 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volet à commande manuelle ou électrique, constitué d’un ensemble de lamelles articulées pouvant s’enrouler autour d’un tambour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-volet-roulant · volet roulant · French
volet roulant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | volet roulant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \vɔ.lɛ ʁu.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « volet roulant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
volet roulant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \vɔ.lɛ ʁu.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Volet à commande manuelle ou électrique, constitué d’un ensemble de lamelles articulées pouvant s’enrouler autour d’un tambour.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for volet roulant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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. The correct French form is volet roulant, spelled V-O-L-E-T- -R-O-U-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Volet à commande manuelle ou électrique, constitué d’un ensemble de lamelles articulées pouvant s’enrouler autour d’un tambour.
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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.