blanchisseuse
\blɑ̃.ʃi.søz\
The verdict
“blanchisseuse” is uncommon French (frequency #75,449 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,449
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui blanchit du linge, des toiles, de la cire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blanchisseuse · blanchisseuse · French
blanchisseuse · rank #75,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,449
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blackface
Nearest frequency peer: blackface (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « blanchisseuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bithynie
Bithynie
24,555 corpus weight
- Bizot
Bizot
24,554 corpus weight
- blackface
blackface
24,553 corpus weight
- blanchisseu…
blanchisseuse
24,552 corpus weight
- blottie
blottie
24,551 corpus weight
- Borja
Borja
24,550 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blanchisseuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blanchisseuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɑ̃.ʃi.søz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #75,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blanchisseuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blanchisseuse is uncommon French at frequency #75,449 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɑ̃.ʃi.søz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui blanchit du linge, des toiles, de la cire.".
blanchisseuse has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is blanchisseuse, spelled B-L-A-N-C-H-I-S-S-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui blanchit du linge, des toiles, de la cire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blanchisseuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y avait grand vacarme de blanchisseuses ; elles criaient, parlaient, chantaient du matin au soir le long du bord.
Il s’agit de lâcher cette petite fille chez une blanchisseuse, la sœur à Godet, et qu’elle s’y impatronise…
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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