lavable
\la.vabl\
The verdict
“lavable” is uncommon French (frequency #84,007 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,007
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un matériau, un objet qui peut être lavé sans être détérioré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavable · lavable · French
lavable · rank #84,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,007
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lav
Nearest frequency peer: lav (-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 « lavable »
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 « lavable » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.vabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavable » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavable is uncommon French at frequency #84,007 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \la.vabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
lavable doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lavable, spelled L-A-V-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un matériau, un objet qui peut être lavé sans être détérioré.
- 2Qualifie une substance qui peut être enlevée par un lavage.
- 3Qualifie un billet vendu à prix réduit, à charge pour l’acheteur de faire partie de la claque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lavable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le sol soit un revêtement lavable ou un tapis, moquette rêche et lavable.
Place de la Comédie, une dame aux allures pincées demanda des gants de peau lavables. - Lavables ? répéta Alice d’un air ahuri. Ça n’existe pas !
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).