lever le doigt
\lə.ve lə dwa\
The verdict
“lever le doigt” 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) - Attirer l’attention sur soi en élevant une main plus haut que la tête et en tendant l’index vers le haut.
| 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) |
Where “lever le doigt” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lever le doigt is 14 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.ve lə dwa\. 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: "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.
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 doigt”
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- -D-O-I-G-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə.ve lə dwa\ (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.