roulésvsroulezConfusable pair

Quick tell: roulés is a adjective, roulez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“roulés” is an adjective and “roulez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,786
“roulés” frequency rank
#29,126
“roulez” frequency rank
59912
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature roulés roulez
Definition Masculin pluriel de roulé. Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rouler.

Same sound, different letters: roulés vs roulez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters.

6 ch
roulés
6 ch
roulez

Same sound, different spelling - roulés / roulez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: roulés and roulez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ʁu.le\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59912, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

roulés is recorded at frequency rank #30,786, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁu.le\. roulez is at rank #29,126, tagged as averb, 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 59912, this pair ranks #100,490 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of roulés vs roulez

Shared letters: loru. Private to "roulés": . Private to "roulez": ez.

"roulés" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "roulez" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • roulezorulez · roluez · rouelz · roulezz · roullez · roulze · rroulez · ruolez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "roulés" for "roulez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "roulés" is an adjective and "roulez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "roulés" vs "roulez" - which ranks higher?
"roulez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,126 in our French list, against #30,786 for "roulés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "roulés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "roulez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #100,490 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "roulés" and "roulez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "râles 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 #100,490 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list