lieu de travail
\ljø də tʁa.vaj\
The verdict
“lieu de travail” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Endroit où l'on effectue son activité professionnelle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lieu de travail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljø də tʁa.vaj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lieu de travail” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lieu de travail is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljø də tʁa.vaj\. 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: "Endroit où l'on effectue son activité professionnelle.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lieu de travail, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lieu de travail, spelled L-I-E-U- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Endroit où l'on effectue son activité professionnelle.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-I-E-U- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ljø də tʁa.vaj\ (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.