lévogyre
\le.vɔ.ʒiʁ\
The verdict
“lévogyre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tourne, qui incline vers la gauche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levogyre · lévogyre · French
lévogyre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | lévogyre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.vɔ.ʒiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
lévogyre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \le.vɔ.ʒiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
lévogyre doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lévogyre, spelled L-É-V-O-G-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui tourne, qui incline vers la gauche.
- 2Qualifie toute substance chimique et spécialement d’un stéréo-isomère faisant tourner vers la gauche le plan de polarisation de la lumière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lévogyre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a trouvé aussi qu’il existe deux espèces différentes de quartz, dont l’une dévie le plan de polarisation à droite et l’autre le tourne dans le sens opposé, et il nomme la première espèce quartz dextrogyre et la seconde quartz lévogyre.
Isolée pour la première fois en 1833, l’atropine est un mélange racémique, optiquement inactif (mélange d’isomères lévogyre et dextrogyre), alors que l’isomère lévogyre est l’hyosciamine.
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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.