labourer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,415
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
labourer is aFrenchverb. It means: Remuer, retourner la terre en formant des sillons avec la charrue, la houe, et autres instruments aratoires. Pronounced \la.bu.ʁe\. Often confused with laboureur and labour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | labourer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.bu.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for labourer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.bu.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,415 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for labourer, with forms such as "albourer", "labbourer", and "laboruer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "laboureur", "labour", 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 labourer, spelled L-A-B-O-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Remuer, retourner la terre en formant des sillons avec la charrue, la houe, et autres instruments aratoires.
- 2Faire, sur le sol, ou par analogie sur une autre surface, à peu près le même effet que la charrue, la bêche, etc.
- 3Blesser moralement en profondeur.
- 4Se dit d’une ancre qui ne tient pas sur le fond où on l’a jetée, ou d’un navire qui passe et touche le fond sans être arrêté.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: albourer,labbourer,laboruer,labouerr,labourerr,labourre,labourrer,labuorer,laoburer,lbaourer,llabourer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for labourer
Misspelling Variants of "labourer"
Frequency rank: #47,415 in French
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Nearby French words
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