travailler comme un nègre
The verdict
“travailler comme un nègre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 25
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Travailler très dur, faire un travail harassant, s’échiner à une tâche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travailler comme un nègre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.je kɔ.m‿œ̃ nɛɡʁ\ |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “travailler comme un nègre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for travailler comme un nègre is 25 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.va.je kɔ.m‿œ̃ nɛɡʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Travailler très dur, faire un travail harassant, s’échiner à une tâche.".
No misspelling variants are generated for travailler comme un nègre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 travailler comme un nègre, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -N-È-G-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Travailler très dur, faire un travail harassant, s’échiner à une tâche.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N- -N-È-G-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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