lavabo
French, noun/la.va.bo/
lavabo is spelled L-A-V-A-B-O (6 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written French, the 23,140th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lavabo is a French masculine noun meaning “washbasin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prière que le prêtre dit en lavant ses doigts durant la messe, avant la consécration”.
What does lavabo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewashbasin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Prière que le prêtre dit en lavant ses doigts durant la messe, avant la consécration. 2. Vasque destinée aux ablutions du prêtre officiant. 3. Dispositif mobile garni d’une cuvette et d’un pot à eau ou d’une cuvette fixe, surmontée de robinets et dotée d’un trou d’évacuation d’eau et destinée à se laver. 4. Pièce où est fixée cette sorte de cuvette.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lavabo
- lavabos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lavabo?
- /la.va.bo/
- \la.va.bo\
- [la.va.bo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lavabo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lavabo in French?
lavabo appears 1.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).