eau de Javel
\o də ʒa.vɛl\
The verdict
“eau de Javel” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Mélange d’hypochlorite de potassium et de chlorure de potassium, dilué dans de l’eau dans une proportion de 6 à 8 %. Elle est utilisée pour blanchir le linge et pour désinfecter l’eau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau de Javel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o də ʒa.vɛl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eau de Javel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eau de Javel is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \o də ʒa.vɛl\. 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: "Mélange d’hypochlorite de potassium et de chlorure de potassium, dilué dans de l’eau dans une proportion de 6 à 8 %. Elle est utilisée pour blanchir le linge et pour désinfecter l’eau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eau de Javel 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 eau de Javel, spelled E-A-U- -D-E- -J-A-V-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mélange d’hypochlorite de potassium et de chlorure de potassium, dilué dans de l’eau dans une proportion de 6 à 8 %. Elle est utilisée pour blanchir le linge et pour désinfecter l’eau.
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- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -D-E- -J-A-V-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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