lavements
\lav.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“lavements” is uncommon French (frequency #92,924 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,924
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lavement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavements · lavements · French
lavements · rank #92,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,924
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Latulippe
Nearest frequency peer: Latulippe (-2 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 « lavements »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lambada
lambada
7,085 corpus weight
- laotiens
laotiens
7,082 corpus weight
- laparotomie
laparotomie
7,081 corpus weight
- Latulippe
Latulippe
7,079 corpus weight
- lavements
lavements
7,077 corpus weight
- leaké
leaké
7,075 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lavements » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavements |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lav.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavements » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavements is uncommon French at frequency #92,924 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lav.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lavement.".
lavements has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lavements, spelled L-A-V-E-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lavement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lavements appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Hardwick admet aussi que ni les lavements ni les autres remèdes ne peuvent désengaîner l’intestin, et qu’il n’y a de guérison possible que par l’adhérence des deux séreuses intestinales qui viennent en contact, et l’évacuation de la partie invaginée.
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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