roulette

Other forms of roulette

plural

roulettes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about roulette

What does roulette mean?

roulette means "a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roulette?

roulette has 2 syllables: rou-lette. The stress falls on "lette". In IPA it is /ɹuˈlɛt/.

What is another word for roulette?

Close synonyms include line roulette, toothed wheel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roulette a common word?

roulette is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with roulette?

7 words rhyme with roulette. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.