travaux forcés

/\tʁa.vo fɔʁ.se\/ noun

Letters

14 characters

Language

French

word origin

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travaux forcés is aFrenchnoun. It means: Peine, prononcée par la justice pénale, de privation de liberté dans un établissement où le travail est obligatoire et sans rémunération. Pronounced \tʁa.vo fɔʁ.se\.

Key facts for travaux forcés
PropertyValue
Headwordtravaux forcés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tʁa.vo fɔʁ.se\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

travaux forcés is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for travaux forcés is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tʁa.vo fɔʁ.se\. 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: "Peine, prononcée par la justice pénale, de privation de liberté dans un établissement où le travail est obligatoire et sans rémunération.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for travaux forcés in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 travaux forcés, spelled T-R-A-V-A-U-X- -F-O-R-C-É-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Peine, prononcée par la justice pénale, de privation de liberté dans un établissement où le travail est obligatoire et sans rémunération.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "travaux forcés"?
"travaux forcés" is spelled T-R-A-V-A-U-X- -F-O-R-C-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁa.vo fɔʁ.se\.
What does "travaux forcés" mean?
As a noun, "travaux forcés" means: Peine, prononcée par la justice pénale, de privation de liberté dans un établissement où le travail est obligatoire et sans rémunération.
How do you pronounce "travaux forcés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "travaux forcés" is \tʁa.vo fɔʁ.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "travaux forcés" come from?
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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.