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The French word for wheel is
roue





wheel

Gender

The gender of roue is feminine. E.g. la roue.

Plural

The plural of roue is roues.

French Definition


wheel
     1. n. Roue.
           — Roue de la moralité tourne tourne tourne, et dis-nous de quoi il retourne.
     2. v. Rouler.



Translations for wheel and their definitions

rouepronunciation
     1. n-f. a wheel
           Une roue de vélo (bike wheel), une roue de secours (spare wheel)
           Roue de moulin: mill wheel.
           Roue dentée (or engrenage): toothed wheel, cogwheel
     2. n-f. the breaking wheel


barrepronunciation
     1. n-f. bar, cake, ingot
     2. n-f. (typography) clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
     3. n-f. (typography) clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
     4. n-f. (typography) clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
     5. n-f. (typography) clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨!⟩
     6. n-f. (typography, improper) clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
     7. n-f. (nautical) helm, tiller
     8. n-f. (heraldic charge) bend sinister


rouler
     1. v. to roll
     2. v. to revolve
     3. v. (colloquial) to go (of events, to proceed)
           Ça roule bien chez mon ami. - It's going well at my friend's house.
     4. v. (of a vehicle) to work, to function
     5. v. to drive (a vehicle)
           On a roulé à 80 km à l'heure. - We were driving 80 km an hour.
           Il roule en Rolls - He drives a Rolls.
           Elle roule dans un véhicule neuf. - She drives a new vehicle.
     6. v. (colloquial) to dupe, to trick
           se faire rouler - to be tricked, to be duped


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