laine de verre
\lɛn də vɛʁ\
The verdict
“laine de verre” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Fibres laineuse obtenu par la fusion de verre recyclé et de divers autres composants, puis passage dans une sorte de filière centrifuge. Mis sous forme de nappe épaisse on l'utilise en tant qu'isol...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laine de verre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛn də vɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laine de verre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laine de verre is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛn də vɛʁ\. 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: "Fibres laineuse obtenu par la fusion de verre recyclé et de divers autres composants, puis passage dans une sorte de filière centrifuge. Mis sous forme de nappe épaisse on l'utilise en tant qu'isol...".
No misspelling variants are generated for laine de verre 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 laine de verre, spelled L-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -V-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fibres laineuse obtenu par la fusion de verre recyclé et de divers autres composants, puis passage dans une sorte de filière centrifuge. Mis sous forme de nappe épaisse on l'utilise en tant qu'isolant thermique et/ou acoustique.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-I-N-E- -D-E- -V-E-R-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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