washing
\ˈwɑʃ.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“washing” is uncommon French (frequency #84,430 among 27,995 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,430
- frequency rank, French
- 27,995
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Linge venant d’être lavé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | washing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɑʃ.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “washing” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
washing is uncommon French at frequency #84,430 among 27,995 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɑʃ.ɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Linge venant d’être lavé.".
washing has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is washing, spelled W-A-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Linge venant d’être lavé.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “washing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is W-A-S-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.