lavables
\la.vabl\
The verdict
“lavables” is uncommon French (frequency #68,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,415
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lavable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavables · lavables · French
lavables · rank #68,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,415
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Laviolette
Nearest frequency peer: Laviolette (+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 « lavables »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- langoustes
langoustes
31,589 corpus weight
- lascar
lascar
31,588 corpus weight
- lavables
lavables
31,586 corpus weight
- Laviolette
Laviolette
31,585 corpus weight
- Leandro
Leandro
31,584 corpus weight
- Leleu
Leleu
31,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lavables » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \la.vabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavables » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavables is uncommon French at frequency #68,415 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \la.vabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lavable.".
lavables has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lavables, spelled L-A-V-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lavable.
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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