travail du sexe
\tʁa.vaj dy sɛks\
The verdict
“travail du sexe” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Activité économique consistant à offrir des services sexuels contre rémunération.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travail du sexe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.vaj dy sɛks\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “travail du sexe” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
travail du sexe is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.vaj dy sɛks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Activité économique consistant à offrir des services sexuels contre rémunération.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for travail du sexe in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is travail du sexe, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L- -D-U- -S-E-X-E.
Definition
- 1Activité économique consistant à offrir des services sexuels contre rémunération.
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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 “travail du sexe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-V-A-I-L- -D-U- -S-E-X-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tʁa.vaj dy sɛks\ (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.