laveur de carreaux

/\la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\/ noun

The verdict

“laveur de carreaux” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
18
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Personne dont le métier consiste à nettoyer et à entretenir les vitres d’un bâtiment.

Key facts for laveur de carreaux
PropertyValue
Headwordlaveur de carreaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “laveur de carreaux” sits in French frequency

laveur de carreaux falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for laveur de carreaux is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne dont le métier consiste à nettoyer et à entretenir les vitres d’un bâtiment.".

No misspelling variants are generated for laveur de carreaux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 laveur de carreaux, spelled L-A-V-E-U-R- -D-E- -C-A-R-R-E-A-U-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne dont le métier consiste à nettoyer et à entretenir les vitres d’un bâtiment.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "laveur de carreaux"?
"laveur de carreaux" is spelled L-A-V-E-U-R- -D-E- -C-A-R-R-E-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\.
What does "laveur de carreaux" mean?
As a noun, "laveur de carreaux" means: Personne dont le métier consiste à nettoyer et à entretenir les vitres d’un bâtiment.
How do you pronounce "laveur de carreaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "laveur de carreaux" is \la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “laveur de carreaux”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is L-A-V-E-U-R- -D-E- -C-A-R-R-E-A-U-X — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.