tenue de travail
\tə.ny də tʁa.vaj\
The verdict
“tenue de 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vêtements et accessoires appropriés que porte un opérateur de l’industrie ou des services, durant son activité professionnelle, en vue de se protéger ou d’assurer la sécurité de ses prestations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenue de travail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.ny də tʁa.vaj\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tenue de travail” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tenue de travail is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tə.ny də tʁa.vaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vêtements et accessoires appropriés que porte un opérateur de l’industrie ou des services, durant son activité professionnelle, en vue de se protéger ou d’assurer la sécurité de ses prestations.".
tenue de travail doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tenue de travail, spelled T-E-N-U-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Vêtements et accessoires appropriés que porte un opérateur de l’industrie ou des services, durant son activité professionnelle, en vue de se protéger ou d’assurer la sécurité de ses prestations.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “tenue de travail”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-E-N-U-E- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tə.ny də tʁa.vaj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.