Which to use
“roulement” and “roulements” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #15,240
- “roulement” frequency rank
- #36,573
- “roulements” frequency rank
- 51813
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | roulement | roulements |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Mouvement de ce qui roule. | Pluriel de roulement. |
Same sound, different letters: roulement vs roulements
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: roulement vs roulements
This is the hard kind. roulement and roulements are pronounced identically (\ʁul.mɑ̃\) 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) - “roulement” sits inside “roulements”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51813, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
roulement is recorded at frequency rank #15,240, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁul.mɑ̃\. roulements is at rank #36,573, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁul.mɑ̃\.
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 51813, this pair ranks #152,260 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of roulement vs roulements
Shared letters: elmnortu. Private to "roulement": -. Private to "roulements": s.
"roulement" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCVCC · "roulements" · 10 letters · shape CVVCVCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- roulement ← orulement · roluement · rouelment · rouleemnt · roulemennt · roulementt · roulemetn · roulemment
- roulements ← orulements · roluements · rouelments · rouleemnts · roulemennts · roulemenst · roulementss · roulementts
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "roulement" and "roulements" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "roulement" vs "roulements" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"roulement" and "roulements" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "roulement" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "roulements" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #152,260 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "roulement" and "roulements" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Rougemont vs roulement". 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 #152,260 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.