lavage de cerveau
\la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\
The verdict
“lavage de cerveau” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavage de cerveau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.vaʒ də sɛʁ.vo\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lavage de cerveau” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lavage de cerveau is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, 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.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lavage de cerveau, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lavage de cerveau, spelled L-A-V-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-E-R-V-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Mise 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.
- 2Intense propagande, désinformation manipulatrice.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “lavage de cerveau”
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-V-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-E-R-V-E-A-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.