lavabos
\la.va.bo\
The verdict
“lavabos” is uncommon French (frequency #60,917 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,917
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lavabo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavabos · lavabos · French
lavabos · rank #60,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,917
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH launch
Nearest frequency peer: launch (-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 « lavabos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- larcin
larcin
39,087 corpus weight
- larmoyant
larmoyant
39,086 corpus weight
- launch
launch
39,085 corpus weight
- lavabos
lavabos
39,084 corpus weight
- laxistes
laxistes
39,083 corpus weight
- leal
leal
39,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lavabos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavabos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.va.bo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavabos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavabos is uncommon French at frequency #60,917 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.va.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lavabo.".
Zero misspellings are on record for lavabos in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lavabos, spelled L-A-V-A-B-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lavabo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lavabos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des devis vont être également demandés à des entreprises afin de changer certains éléments vétustes de six appartements : les baignoires à remplacer par des douches à l’italienne, des lavabos, des éviers et la robinetterie.
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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