lavage de cerveau

/\la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\/ noun

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Language

French

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lavage de cerveau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mise en œuvre de procédés qui auraient la faculté de reconditionner le libre arbitre d’un individu par la modification cognitive, peut-être aussi physiologique et neurologique, du cortex cérébral. Pronounced \la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\.

Key facts for lavage de cerveau
PropertyValue
Headwordlavage de cerveau
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lavage de cerveau is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lavage de cerveau is 17 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lavage de cerveau in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lavage de cerveau, spelled L-A-V-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-E-R-V-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mise en œuvre de procédés qui auraient la faculté de reconditionner le libre arbitre d’un individu par la modification cognitive, peut-être aussi physiologique et neurologique, du cortex cérébral.
  2. 2
    Intense propagande, désinformation manipulatrice.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lavage de cerveau"?
"lavage de cerveau" is spelled L-A-V-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-E-R-V-E-A-U. The IPA pronunciation is \la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\.
What does "lavage de cerveau" mean?
As a noun, "lavage de cerveau" means: Mise en œuvre de procédés qui auraient la faculté de reconditionner le libre arbitre d’un individu par la modification cognitive, peut-être aussi physiologique et neurologique, du cortex cérébral.
How do you pronounce "lavage de cerveau"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lavage de cerveau" is \la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lavage de cerveau" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.