wagon-lit
\va.ɡɔ̃.li\
The verdict
“wagon-lit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wagon équipé de lits et de commodités pour permettre aux voyageurs d’y dormir à l'aise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wagon-lit · wagon-lit · French
wagon-lit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wagon-lit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ɡɔ̃.li\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
wagon-lit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ɡɔ̃.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wagon équipé de lits et de commodités pour permettre aux voyageurs d’y dormir à l'aise.".
wagon-lit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is wagon-lit, spelled W-A-G-O-N---L-I-T.
Definition
- 1Wagon équipé de lits et de commodités pour permettre aux voyageurs d’y dormir à l'aise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wagon-lit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jadis existait la Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits et des grands express européens.
Mais je conseille peu l’Islande aux malades, aux invalides et à quiconque est habitué au confort des hôtels et des wagons-lits.
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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.