laverie
\la.vʁi\
The verdict
“laverie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,393. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,393
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Endroit où on lave le minerai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-laverie · laverie · French
laverie · rank #38,393 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,393
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lavergne
Nearest frequency peer: Lavergne (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « laverie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lafon
lafon
61,611 corpus weight
- Launay
Launay
61,610 corpus weight
- Lavergne
Lavergne
61,609 corpus weight
- laverie
laverie
61,608 corpus weight
- Libourne
Libourne
61,607 corpus weight
- lights
lights
61,605 corpus weight
What this shows « laverie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laverie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.vʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « laverie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around laverie (IPA \la.vʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,393 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for laverie, with forms such as "alverie", "laevrie", and "laveire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Lavoie", "loterie", "literie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is laverie, spelled L-A-V-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Endroit où on lave le minerai.
- 2Opération destinée à extraire le sel mélangé au sable des bords de mer
- 3Endroit spécifique où on lavait la vaisselle.
- 4Endroit où l’on lave industriellement le linge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how laverie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Paris, dans une laverie du quartier de la Bastille, le linge tourne et les vies défilent.
Dans ma rue, il y a une boulangerie, une épicerie, une laverie, un traiteur chinois, un café-tabac, un hôtel de passe et une bouquinerie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alverie
- laevrie
- laveire
- laverei
- laverrie
- lavreie
- lavverie
- llaverie
- lvaerie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of laverie - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "laverie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).