labor of love

/\ˈleɪ.bə.ɹ‿ɒv ˈlʌv\/ noun

The verdict

“labor of love” 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
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Variante orthographique de labour of love.

Key facts for labor of love
PropertyValue
Headwordlabor of love
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈleɪ.bə.ɹ‿ɒv ˈlʌv\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “labor of love” sits in French frequency

labor of love 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 labor of love is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈleɪ.bə.ɹ‿ɒv ˈlʌv\. 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: "Variante orthographique de labour of love.".

No misspelling variants are generated for labor of love 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 labor of love, spelled L-A-B-O-R- -O-F- -L-O-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante orthographique de labour of love.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "labor of love"?
"labor of love" is spelled L-A-B-O-R- -O-F- -L-O-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈleɪ.bə.ɹ‿ɒv ˈlʌv\.
What does "labor of love" mean?
As a noun, "labor of love" means: Variante orthographique de labour of love.
How do you pronounce "labor of love"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "labor of love" is \ˈleɪ.bə.ɹ‿ɒv ˈlʌv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "labor of love" come from?
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Using “labor of love”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is L-A-B-O-R- -O-F- -L-O-V-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ˈleɪ.bə.ɹ‿ɒv ˈlʌv\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.