inlavable
\ɛ̃.la.vabl\
The verdict
“inlavable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Qui ne peut être lavé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-inlavable · inlavable · French
inlavable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | inlavable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.la.vabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
inlavable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛ̃.la.vabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne peut être lavé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for inlavable, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 inlavable, spelled I-N-L-A-V-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne peut être lavé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how inlavable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une saleté inlavable, qui faisait contraste avec la sévère propreté du reste de la prison, était incrustée dans les murs, mettant une grande tache autour des prisonnières.
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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.