sleeping-car
\sli.piŋ kaʁ\
The verdict
“sleeping-car” 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) - Wagon-lit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sleeping-car · sleeping-car · French
sleeping-car · 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 | sleeping-car |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sli.piŋ kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « sleeping-car » en français
Rare enough to double-check
sleeping-car is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \sli.piŋ kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wagon-lit.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sleeping-car in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is sleeping-car, spelled S-L-E-E-P-I-N-G---C-A-R.
Definition
- 1Wagon-lit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sleeping-car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le train est reparti à quatre heures du matin. Notre wagon est toujours transformé en sleeping-car. J’envie le sommeil de mes compagnons, […].
Ce même jour, le train du soir amenait de Milan les Anthime ; comme ils voyageaient en troisième, ils ne virent qu’à l’arrivée la comtesse de Baraglioul et sa fille aînée qu’amenait de Paris le sleeping-car du même train.
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.