lav
\læv\
The verdict
“lav” is uncommon French (frequency #84,006 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,006
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit coin, toilettes, w.-c. (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lav · lav · French
lav · rank #84,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,006
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lavable
Nearest frequency peer: lavable (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lav »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kébab
kébab
16,001 corpus weight
- laryngite
laryngite
15,997 corpus weight
- lav
lav
15,995 corpus weight
- lavable
lavable
15,994 corpus weight
- laïcisme
laïcisme
15,993 corpus weight
- lectio
lectio
15,989 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lav » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lav |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \læv\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lav » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lav is uncommon French at frequency #84,006 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \læv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lav, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lav, spelled L-A-V.
Definition
- 1Petit coin, toilettes, w.-c. (pièce destinée à faire ses besoins).
- 2Toilettes, w.-c. (appareil sanitaire recueillant et évacuant les besoins naturels).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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