Which to use
“roller” and “rollers” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,971
- “roller” frequency rank
- #39,512
- “rollers” frequency rank
- 59483
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | roller | rollers |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Patin à roulettes dont les roues sont alignées. | Pluriel de roller. |
Same sound, different letters: roller vs rollers
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Homophone desk: roller vs rollers
This is the hard kind. roller and rollers are pronounced identically (\ʁɔ.lœʁ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “roller” sits inside “rollers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59483, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
roller is recorded at frequency rank #19,971, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.lœʁ\. rollers is at rank #39,512, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁɔ.lœʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 59483, this pair ranks #102,882 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of roller vs rollers
Shared letters: elor. Private to "roller": -. Private to "rollers": s.
"roller" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "rollers" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "roller" and "rollers" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "roller" vs "rollers" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "roller" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rollers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #102,882 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "roller" and "rollers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rollers vs roulés". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #102,882 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.