wagon-lits
\va.ɡɔ̃.li\
The verdict
“wagon-lits” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de wagon-lit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-wagon-lits · wagon-lits · French
wagon-lits · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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-lits |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \va.ɡɔ̃.li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
wagon-lits is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \va.ɡɔ̃.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de wagon-lit.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wagon-lits, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is wagon-lits, spelled W-A-G-O-N---L-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de wagon-lit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wagon-lits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] entre Paris et Nice, depuis le 29 octobre, un nouveau train rapide composé de voitures ordinaires de 1ʳᵉ classe, de fauteuils-lits, de coupés-salons (avec cabinet de toilette et water-closet), et d’un wagon-lits (sleeping-car).
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.