laver
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,047
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
laver is aFrenchverb. It means: Nettoyer avec de l’eau, pure ou savonneuse ou de lessive, ou, avec tout autre liquide. Pronounced \la.ve\. It ranks #5,047 in French word frequency. Often confused with ler and live.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \la.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for laver is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,047 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for laver, with forms such as "alver", "laevr", and "laverr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ler", "live", "love", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 laver, spelled L-A-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer avec de l’eau, pure ou savonneuse ou de lessive, ou, avec tout autre liquide.
- 2Enlever une tache, une salissure, au moyen d’un lavage ou en la frottant au moyen d’un produit chimique ou autre.
- 3Enlever, en parlant de choses qui flétrissent l’honneur, qui ternissent la réputation.
- 4Débarrasser.
- 5Ombrer, colorier un dessin en étendant une ou plusieurs teintes d’encre de Chine, de bistre ou d’autre couleur délayée dans de l’eau de gomme.
- 6Vendre ou revendre, généralement à perte, quelque chose dont on veut se débarrasser.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alver,laevr,laverr,lavre,lavver,llaver,lvaer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for laver
Misspelling Variants of "laver"
Frequency rank: #5,047 in French
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