division du travail

\di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\

/\di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\/ noun

The verdict

“division du travail” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Dans un appareil productif, répartition des tâches entre personnes et, ou équipes.

Key facts for division du travail
PropertyValue
Headworddivision du travail
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “division du travail” sits in French frequency

division du travail falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for division du travail is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans un appareil productif, répartition des tâches entre personnes et, ou équipes.".

No misspelling variants are generated for division du travail in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is division du travail, spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N- -D-U- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dans un appareil productif, répartition des tâches entre personnes et, ou équipes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "division du travail"?
"division du travail" is spelled D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N- -D-U- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is \di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\.
What does "division du travail" mean?
As a noun, "division du travail" means: Dans un appareil productif, répartition des tâches entre personnes et, ou équipes.
How do you pronounce "division du travail"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "division du travail" is \di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “division du travail”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-I-V-I-S-I-O-N- -D-U- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \di.vi.zjɔ̃ dy tʁa.vaj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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