toilette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,910
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
toilette is aFrenchnoun. It means: À l'origine, petite nappe en toile qui une fois étendue sur une table servait à y poser ce que l'on utilisait pour la parure. Pronounced \twa.lɛt\. It ranks #7,910 in French word frequency. Often confused with tourette and toilettes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toilette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \twa.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for toilette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \twa.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,910 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for toilette, with forms such as "otilette", "tiolette", and "toieltte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tourette", "toilettes", "tablette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 toilette, spelled T-O-I-L-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1À l'origine, petite nappe en toile qui une fois étendue sur une table servait à y poser ce que l'on utilisait pour la parure.
- 2Flacons, boites, ustensiles, etc, servant à se parer, se maquiller.
- 3Meuble garni de ce qui sert pour se laver, se coiffer, se parer.
- 4Action de se laver.
- 5Ensemble des vêtements et accessoires d’une femme.
- 6Appareil sanitaire servant à recueillir et à évacuer les besoins naturels.
- 7(souvent pluriel) Pièce où se trouvent des installations sanitaires pour faire ses besoins naturels.
- 8Morceau de toile dont les marchands d’étoffes, les tailleurs, les libraires, etc., enveloppent les marchandises pour les livrer.
- 9Crépine ; péritoine de porc dont on entoure les pâtés, pieds de porc, etc., avant de les cuire au four.
- 10Toilette marseillaise : Sorte de vanity case en osier, destiné à transporter les produits.
- 11Beaux habits, habits du dimanche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: otilette,tiolette,toieltte,toilete,toiletet,toillette,toiltete,toliette,ttoilette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toilette
Misspelling Variants of "toilette"
Frequency rank: #7,910 in French
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