Which to use
“roulant” and “roulants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,236
- “roulant” frequency rank
- #30,348
- “roulants” frequency rank
- 37584
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | roulant | roulants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui roule. | Masculin pluriel de roulant. |
Same sound, different letters: roulant vs roulants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. roulant runs 7 letters (CVVCVCC) against roulants's 8 (CVVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - roulant and roulants
This is the hard kind. roulant and roulants are pronounced identically (\ʁu.lɑ̃\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “roulant” sits inside “roulants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37584, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
roulant is recorded at frequency rank #7,236, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁu.lɑ̃\. roulants is at rank #30,348, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁu.lɑ̃\.
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 37584, this pair ranks #261,464 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of roulant vs roulants
Shared letters: alnortu. Private to "roulant": -. Private to "roulants": s.
"roulant" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "roulants" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "roulant" for "roulants" ever safe?
Frequency check: "roulant" vs "roulants" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "roulant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "roulants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #261,464 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "roulant" and "roulants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "roulais vs roulants". 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 #261,464 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.