lapin de garenne
\la.pɛ̃ d(ə)ɡa.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“lapin de garenne” 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
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de petit mammifère lagomorphe sauvage qui a de grandes oreilles, mais moins longues que celles des lièvres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lapin de garenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \la.pɛ̃ d(ə)ɡa.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lapin de garenne” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lapin de garenne is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \la.pɛ̃ d(ə)ɡa.ʁɛn\. 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 petit mammifère lagomorphe sauvage qui a de grandes oreilles, mais moins longues que celles des lièvres.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lapin de garenne 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 lapin de garenne, spelled L-A-P-I-N- -D-E- -G-A-R-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit mammifère lagomorphe sauvage qui a de grandes oreilles, mais moins longues que celles des lièvres.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-A-P-I-N- -D-E- -G-A-R-E-N-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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