lever les fourches
\lə.ve le fuʁʃ\
The verdict
“lever les fourches” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mourir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lever les fourches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lə.ve le fuʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lever les fourches” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lever les fourches is 18 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.ve le fuʁʃ\. 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: "Mourir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lever les fourches in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lever les fourches, spelled L-E-V-E-R- -L-E-S- -F-O-U-R-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Mourir.
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 les fourches”
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-S- -F-O-U-R-C-H-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə.ve le fuʁʃ\ (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.