lessiver
\le.si.ve\
The verdict
“lessiver” is uncommon French (frequency #87,802 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,802
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nettoyer ou blanchir au moyen de la lessive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lessiver · lessiver · French
lessiver · rank #87,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,802
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH legendary
Nearest frequency peer: legendary (-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 « lessiver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lawyer
lawyer
12,201 corpus weight
- legendary
legendary
12,200 corpus weight
- lessiver
lessiver
12,199 corpus weight
- lethal
lethal
12,198 corpus weight
- leti
leti
12,197 corpus weight
- Leyden
Leyden
12,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lessiver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lessiver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le.si.ve\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lessiver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lessiver is uncommon French at frequency #87,802 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \le.si.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
lessiver has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is lessiver, spelled L-E-S-S-I-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nettoyer ou blanchir au moyen de la lessive.
- 2Verser plusieurs fois de l’eau chaude ou froide sur des matières terreuses ou autres pour en extraire les parties solubles qu’elles contiennent.
- 3Épuiser, fatiguer à l’excès.
- 4Ruiner, dépouiller de son argent, en particulier aux jeux.
- 5Vendre, liquider, en particulier des biens mal acquis.
- 6Tuer, éliminer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lessiver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Financés à hauteur de 30 % par l’État, ces « lavoirs communs » plus ou moins rudimentaires permettent ainsi aux « lavandières » de lessiver leur linge avec de l'eau propre et de l'essorer efficacement sur les bords inclinés du bassin en le frappant avec un battoir, puis de le faire sécher sur place si elles ne disposent pas d'assez de place chez elles. La…
On a lessivé ces terres, afin d’en tirer du salpêtre.
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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