toilettes

/\twa.lɛt\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,807

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

toilettes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit espace clos utilisé pour se soulager des déjections corporelles, telles que l’urine, les selles et les vomissures. Pronounced \twa.lɛt\. It ranks #3,807 in French word frequency. Often confused with toilette and tablettes.

Key facts for toilettes
PropertyValue
Headwordtoilettes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\twa.lɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,807
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of toilettes in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for toilettes is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \twa.lɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,807 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for toilettes, with forms such as "otilettes", "tiolettes", and "toielttes". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "toilette", "tablettes", 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 toilettes, spelled T-O-I-L-E-T-T-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit espace clos utilisé pour se soulager des déjections corporelles, telles que l’urine, les selles et les vomissures.
  2. 2
    Appareil sanitaire servant à recueillir et à évacuer les besoins naturels.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: otilettes,tiolettes,toielttes,toiletes,toiletets,toilettess,toilettse,toillettes,toiltetes,toliettes,ttoilettes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toilettes

Misspelling Variants of "toilettes"

otilettes9tiolettes9toielttes9toiletes8toiletets9toilettess10toilettse9toillettes10
Misspelling Variants of "toilettes"

Frequency rank: #3,807 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "toilettes"?
"toilettes" is spelled T-O-I-L-E-T-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \twa.lɛt\.
What does "toilettes" mean?
As a noun, "toilettes" means: Petit espace clos utilisé pour se soulager des déjections corporelles, telles que l’urine, les selles et les vomissures.
What words are commonly confused with "toilettes"?
"toilettes" is commonly confused with "toilette", "tablettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "toilettes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "toilettes" is \twa.lɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "toilettes" come from?
"toilettes" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.