lever le doigt
\lə.ve lə dwa\
The verdict
“lever le doigt” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attirer l’attention sur soi en élevant une main plus haut que la tête et en tendant l’index vers le haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lever-le-doigt · lever le doigt · French
lever le doigt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lever le doigt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lə.ve lə dwa\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lever le doigt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lever le doigt is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \lə.ve lə dwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attirer l’attention sur soi en élevant une main plus haut que la tête et en tendant l’index vers le haut.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lever le doigt, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lever le doigt, spelled L-E-V-E-R- -L-E- -D-O-I-G-T.
Definition
- 1Attirer l’attention sur soi en élevant une main plus haut que la tête et en tendant l’index vers le haut.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lever le doigt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’école, les élèves doivent lever le doigt s’ils veulent dire quelque chose au professeur ou à la classe.
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.