lavette
\la.vɛt\
The verdict
“lavette” is uncommon French (frequency #96,073 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,073
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit morceau de linge, torchon ou sorte de pinceau garni de gros fils dont on se sert pour laver la vaisselle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lavette · lavette · French
lavette · rank #96,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,073
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lausannoise
Nearest frequency peer: lausannoise (-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 « lavette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lateral
lateral
3,931 corpus weight
- Lauri
Lauri
3,930 corpus weight
- lausannoise
lausannoise
3,929 corpus weight
- lavette
lavette
3,928 corpus weight
- lavoro
lavoro
3,927 corpus weight
- leen
leen
3,926 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lavette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lavette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.vɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lavette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lavette is uncommon French at frequency #96,073 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \la.vɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lavette, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lavette, spelled L-A-V-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit morceau de linge, torchon ou sorte de pinceau garni de gros fils dont on se sert pour laver la vaisselle.
- 2Individu sans énergie, sans courage.
- 3Gant de toilette.
- 4Langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lavette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce disant, il m’a tendu quatre doigts, mous comme une vieille lavette.
Ce garçon est une vraie lavette.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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