Which to use
“roulette” and “roulettes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,974
- “roulette” frequency rank
- #21,450
- “roulettes” frequency rank
- 41424
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | roulette | roulettes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Petite roue de bois, de fer, de cuivre, etc., servant à faire rouler les objets auxquels elle est attachée. | Pluriel de roulette. |
Same sound, different letters: roulette vs roulettes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. roulette runs 8 letters (CVVCVCCV) against roulettes's 9 (CVVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - roulette and roulettes
This is the hard kind. roulette and roulettes are pronounced identically (\ʁu.lɛt\) 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) - “roulette” sits inside “roulettes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41424, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
roulette is recorded at frequency rank #19,974, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁu.lɛt\. roulettes is at rank #21,450, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁu.lɛt\.
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 41424, this pair ranks #233,212 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of roulette vs roulettes
Shared letters: elortu. Private to "roulette": -. Private to "roulettes": s.
"roulette" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCV · "roulettes" · 9 letters · shape CVVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "roulette" and "roulettes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "roulette" vs "roulettes" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"roulette" and "roulettes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "roulette" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "roulettes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #233,212 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "roulette" and "roulettes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "roulette vs rouverte". 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 #233,212 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.