toilettes

\twa.lɛt\

/\twa.lɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“toilettes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,807. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,807
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit espace clos utilisé pour se soulager des déjections corporelles, telles que l’urine, les selles et les vomissures.

Corpus desk

Index FR-toilettes · toilettes · French

toilettes · rank #3,807 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,807
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Thierry

Nearest frequency peer: Thierry (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « toilettes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « toilettes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

toilettes vs toilette
89% similar
toilettes vs tablettes
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « toilettes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.toilettesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Thierry » (#3,806), « Tony » (#3,808), « tableaux » (#3,805). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « toilettes » est au #3,807. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around toilettes (IPA \twa.lɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,807 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for toilettes, with forms such as "otilettes", "tiolettes", and "toielttes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is toilettes, spelled T-O-I-L-E-T-T-E-S.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how toilettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – Où sont les toilettes ? me pose problème. C’est une requête froide, qui sent son restaurant de province.
  2. Il n'y a pas un moment, ni un endroit, où nous puissions avoir du répit : aux États-Unis, 75 % des possesseurs de smartphones l'utilisent aux toilettes !

Synonyms

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This word in other languages

toilet(English)baño(Español)Toilette(Deutsch)banheiro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otilettes
  • tiolettes
  • toielttes
  • toiletes
  • toiletets
  • toilettess
  • toilettse
  • toillettes
  • toiltetes
  • toliettes
  • ttoilettes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of toilettes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

otilettes2tiolettes2toielttes2toiletes1toiletets2toilettess1toilettse2toillettes1
Edit distance from "toilettes"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "toilettes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plastique#3,786descendre#3,835livraison#3,773familiale#3,844

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

tableaux11 variantssortent11 variantsaccessible11 variantsautorisé11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list