serpillière
\sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“serpillière” is uncommon French (frequency #52,343 among 394,209 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,343
- frequency rank, French
- 394,209
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Toile grossière et claire en fil d’étoupe dont on se sert pour emballer les marchandises, pour laver les carrelages, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | serpillière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “serpillière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
serpillière is uncommon French at frequency #52,343 among 394,209 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for serpillière, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is serpillière, spelled S-E-R-P-I-L-L-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Toile grossière et claire en fil d’étoupe dont on se sert pour emballer les marchandises, pour laver les carrelages, etc.
- 2Tablier long fait le plus souvent de cette sorte de toile.
- 3Torchon en toile grossière destiné au lavage des sols.
- 4Personne qui est incapable de réagir ; personne désespérée.
- 5Un des noms vernaculaires de la courtilière.
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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Using “serpillière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-E-R-P-I-L-L-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.