labors of love

/\ˈleɪ.bəz ɒv ˈlʌv\/ noun

The verdict

“labors 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
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de labor of love.

Key facts for labors of love
PropertyValue
Headwordlabors of love
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈleɪ.bəz ɒv ˈlʌv\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “labors of love” sits in French frequency

labors 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 labors of love is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈleɪ.bəz 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: "Pluriel de labor of love.".

No misspelling variants are generated for labors 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 labors of love, spelled L-A-B-O-R-S- -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
    Pluriel de labor of love.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "labors of love"?
"labors of love" is spelled L-A-B-O-R-S- -O-F- -L-O-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈleɪ.bəz ɒv ˈlʌv\.
What does "labors of love" mean?
As a noun, "labors of love" means: Pluriel de labor of love.
How do you pronounce "labors of love"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "labors of love" is \ˈleɪ.bəz ɒv ˈlʌv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "labors of love" come from?
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Using “labors 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-S- -O-F- -L-O-V-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ˈleɪ.bəz 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.