sans-travail
\sɑ̃.tʁa.vaj\
The verdict
“sans-travail” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui est privée d'emploi et de salaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sans-travail · sans-travail · French
sans-travail · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | sans-travail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑ̃.tʁa.vaj\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
sans-travail is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑ̃.tʁa.vaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui est privée d'emploi et de salaire.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sans-travail in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sans-travail, spelled S-A-N-S---T-R-A-V-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Personne qui est privée d'emploi et de salaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sans-travail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a des raisons de supposer que ce phénomène des sans-travail, des inemployés qui sont en fait inemployables, se perpétuera à l'état de classe, […].
Vérité plus frappante encore en Allemagne que dans le reste du monde: six millions de chômeurs, tant bien que mal assurés contre la crevaison de faim, et autant de sans-travail et sans allocation, réduits, avec leurs familles, à la sportule de la charité publique !
Synonyms
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.