lit à eau
\li a o\
The verdict
“lit à eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lit ou matelas rempli d’eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lit-a-eau · lit à eau · French
lit à eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lit à eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li a o\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lit à eau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lit à eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \li a o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lit ou matelas rempli d’eau.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lit à eau, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is lit à eau, spelled L-I-T- -À- -E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Lit ou matelas rempli d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lit à eau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette entreprise commercialise des lits à eau et des matelas à eau de haute qualité.
Synonyms
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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.