travailleur au noir
\tʁa.va.jœ.ʁ‿o nwaʁ\
The verdict
“travailleur au noir” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui travaille de façon non déclarée ou illégalement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | travailleur au noir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.va.jœ.ʁ‿o nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “travailleur au noir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for travailleur au noir is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.va.jœ.ʁ‿o nwaʁ\. 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: "Personne qui travaille de façon non déclarée ou illégalement.".
travailleur au noir has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is travailleur au noir, spelled T-R-A-V-A-I-L-L-E-U-R- -A-U- -N-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui travaille de façon non déclarée ou illégalement.
This word in other languages
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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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-L-E-U-R- -A-U- -N-O-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.