laveur de carreaux
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laveur de carreaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.vœʁ də ka.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laveur de carreaux” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Personne dont le métier consiste à nettoyer et à entretenir les vitres d’un bâtiment.
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- 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.
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