Which to use
“roulage” and “roulée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #35,700
- “roulage” frequency rank
- #35,701
- “roulée” frequency rank
- 71401
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | roulage | roulée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Transport des marchandises par voiture. | Coups donnés à quelqu’un. |
Where the eye mixes roulage and roulée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. roulage runs 7 letters (CVVCVCV) against roulée's 6 (CVVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: roulage vs roulée
A purely visual mix-up. roulage (\ʁu.laʒ\) and roulée (\ʁu.le\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71401, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
roulage is recorded at frequency rank #35,700, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁu.laʒ\. roulée is at rank #35,701, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁu.le\.
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 71401, this pair ranks #47,691 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of roulage vs roulée
Shared letters: eloru. Private to "roulage": ag. Private to "roulée": é.
"roulage" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCV · "roulée" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- roulage ← orulage · roluage · roualge · roulaeg · roulagge · roulgae · roullage · rroulage
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "roulage" for "roulée" ever safe?
Frequency check: "roulage" vs "roulée" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "roulage" and "roulée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "roulage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "roulée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #47,691 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "roulage" and "roulée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "refoulée vs roulée". 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 #47,691 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.