levée de boucliers
\lə.ve də bu.kli.je\
The verdict
“levée de boucliers” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Démonstration par laquelle les soldats romains témoignaient leur résistance aux volontés de leur général.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levée de boucliers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lə.ve də bu.kli.je\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “levée de boucliers” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for levée de boucliers is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.ve də bu.kli.je\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for levée de boucliers in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is levée de boucliers, spelled L-E-V-É-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-L-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Démonstration par laquelle les soldats romains témoignaient leur résistance aux volontés de leur général.
- 2Manifestation d’opposition violente et générale d’un groupe vis-à-vis d’une autorité ou d’une personne dont on critique les décisions, les opinions, etc. ; tollé.
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.
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Using “levée de boucliers”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-V-É-E- -D-E- -B-O-U-C-L-I-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə.ve də bu.kli.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.