lessive
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,668
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
lessive is aFrenchnoun. It means: Eau chaude que l’on verse sur du linge à blanchir, qui est entassé dans un cuvier et sur lequel on a mis un lit de soude, de potasse ou de cendre de bois. Pronounced \lɛ.siv\. Often confused with lessives and Leslie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lessive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ.siv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lessive is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.siv\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,668 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for lessive, with forms such as "elssive", "lesisve", and "lesive". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "lessives", "Leslie", "Lessing", 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 lessive, spelled L-E-S-S-I-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eau chaude que l’on verse sur du linge à blanchir, qui est entassé dans un cuvier et sur lequel on a mis un lit de soude, de potasse ou de cendre de bois.
- 2Action de laver, de nettoyer le linge par des procédés chimiques ou mécaniques.
- 3Linge sale qui doit être lessivé, qui a été lavé.
- 4Toute sorte d’eau détersive, rendue telle par quelque matière convenable.
- 5Poudre ou liquide détergente que l'on dissout dans l'eau pour laver le linge.
- 6Nettoyage, action de débarrasser un organisme industriel, commercial, administratif, etc., des gens qui en compromettent le bon fonctionnement.
- 7Solution aqueuse alcaline.
- 8Opération qui consiste à verser plusieurs fois de l’eau chaude ou froide sur des matières terreuses ou autres pour en extraire les parties solubles qu’elles contiennent.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elssive,lesisve,lesive,lessiev,lessivve,lessvie,llessive,lsesive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lessive
Misspelling Variants of "lessive"
Frequency rank: #15,668 in French
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Nearby French words
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