laboratoire

/\la.bɔ.ʁa.twaʁ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,011

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

laboratoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu d'exercice de chercheurs où sont réalisées des observations ou des expériences, ainsi que toute autre activité scientifique. Pronounced \la.bɔ.ʁa.twaʁ\. It ranks #3,011 in French word frequency. Often confused with laboratory and libératoire.

Key facts for laboratoire
PropertyValue
Headwordlaboratoire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la.bɔ.ʁa.twaʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#3,011
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of laboratoire in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for laboratoire is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.bɔ.ʁa.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,011 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for laboratoire, with forms such as "alboratoire", "labboratoire", and "laboartoire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "laboratory", "libératoire", "laboratoires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 laboratoire, spelled L-A-B-O-R-A-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu d'exercice de chercheurs où sont réalisées des observations ou des expériences, ainsi que toute autre activité scientifique.
  2. 2
    Atelier garni de fourneaux, où les pharmaciens, distillateurs, limonadiers, confiseurs, pâtissiers, glaciers ou autres activités culinaires, préparent des spécialités.
  3. 3
    Industriel de la chimie fine.
  4. 4
    Unité administrative d’organisation de la recherche.
  5. 5
    Zone à atmosphère contrôlée destinée à une activité adaptée.
  6. 6
    Salle d'étude contenant une variété d'équipements où sont proposés des cours d'instruction.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: alboratoire,labboratoire,laboartoire,laboraotire,laboratiore,laboratoier,laboratoirre,laboratorie,laborattoire,laborratoire,labortaoire,labroatoire,laobratoire,lbaoratoire,llaboratoire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for laboratoire

Misspelling Variants of "laboratoire"

alboratoire11labboratoire12laboartoire11laboraotire11laboratiore11laboratoier11laboratoirre12laboratorie11
Misspelling Variants of "laboratoire"

Frequency rank: #3,011 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "laboratoire"?
"laboratoire" is spelled L-A-B-O-R-A-T-O-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \la.bɔ.ʁa.twaʁ\.
What does "laboratoire" mean?
As a noun, "laboratoire" means: Lieu d'exercice de chercheurs où sont réalisées des observations ou des expériences, ainsi que toute autre activité scientifique.
What words are commonly confused with "laboratoire"?
"laboratoire" is commonly confused with "laboratory", "libératoire", "laboratoires". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "laboratoire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "laboratoire" is \la.bɔ.ʁa.twaʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "laboratoire" come from?
"laboratoire" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.