labre vert

/\labʁ vɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“labre vert” 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
10
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce de poisson osseux marin, un labre présent dans l’Atlantique et la Méditerranée, souvent vert.

Key facts for labre vert
PropertyValue
Headwordlabre vert
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\labʁ vɛʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “labre vert” sits in French frequency

labre vert falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for labre vert is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \labʁ vɛʁ\. 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: "Espèce de poisson osseux marin, un labre présent dans l’Atlantique et la Méditerranée, souvent vert.".

No misspelling variants are generated for labre vert in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 labre vert, spelled L-A-B-R-E- -V-E-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de poisson osseux marin, un labre présent dans l’Atlantique et la Méditerranée, souvent vert.

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "labre vert"?
"labre vert" is spelled L-A-B-R-E- -V-E-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \labʁ vɛʁ\.
What does "labre vert" mean?
As a noun, "labre vert" means: Espèce de poisson osseux marin, un labre présent dans l’Atlantique et la Méditerranée, souvent vert.
How do you pronounce "labre vert"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "labre vert" is \labʁ vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "labre vert" come from?
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Using “labre vert”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is L-A-B-R-E- -V-E-R-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \labʁ vɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.