buandière
\by.ɑ̃.djɛʁ\
The verdict
“buandière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui faisait le premier blanchiment des toiles neuves.
Corpus desk
Index FR-buandiere · buandière · French
buandière · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buandière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \by.ɑ̃.djɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « buandière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
buandière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \by.ɑ̃.djɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
buandière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is buandière, spelled B-U-A-N-D-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui faisait le premier blanchiment des toiles neuves.
- 2Celle qui faisait la lessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how buandière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus d’une fois la buandière du Terrain, chargée de « laver le chapitre », avait observé, non sans effroi, des marques d’ongles et de doigts crispés dans le surplis de monsieur l’archidiacre de Josas.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.