lever le coude
\lə.ve lə kud\
The verdict
“lever le coude” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - S’adonner à la beuverie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lever le coude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lə.ve lə kud\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lever le coude” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lever le coude is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.ve lə kud\. 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: "S’adonner à la beuverie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lever le coude in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lever le coude, spelled L-E-V-E-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1S’adonner à la beuverie.
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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 “lever le coude”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-V-E-R- -L-E- -C-O-U-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə.ve lə kud\ (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.