serpillière
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#52,343
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
serpillière is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toile grossière et claire en fil d’étoupe dont on se sert pour emballer les marchandises, pour laver les carrelages, etc. Pronounced \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for serpillière is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛʁ.pi.jɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #52,343 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for serpillière in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is serpillière, spelled S-E-R-P-I-L-L-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Frequency rank: #52,343 in French
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