lavais
\la.vɛ\
The verdict
“lavais” is uncommon French (frequency #69,196 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,196
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de laver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavais · lavais · French
lavais · rank #69,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,196
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lauryn
Nearest frequency peer: Lauryn (-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 « lavais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lattaquié
Lattaquié
30,808 corpus weight
- Laureen
Laureen
30,807 corpus weight
- Lauryn
Lauryn
30,806 corpus weight
- lavais
lavais
30,805 corpus weight
- Leclère
Leclère
30,804 corpus weight
- libérait
libérait
30,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lavais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavais is uncommon French at frequency #69,196 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \la.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for lavais in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lavais, spelled L-A-V-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de laver.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de laver.
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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