lèvre
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,423
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lèvre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie extérieure et charnue qui borde la bouche, qui couvre les dents et qui aide à la formation des sons, à l’articulation des mots. Note d’usage : Très souvent employé au pluriel pour comprendre... Pronounced \lɛvʁ\. Often confused with lire and live.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lèvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lèvre is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛvʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,423 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lèvre, with forms such as "llèvre", "lvère", and "lèrve". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lire", "live", "love", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is lèvre, spelled L-È-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie extérieure et charnue qui borde la bouche, qui couvre les dents et qui aide à la formation des sons, à l’articulation des mots. Note d’usage : Très souvent employé au pluriel pour comprendre la lèvre supérieure et la lèvre inférieure.
- 2Bords d’une plaie.
- 3Bords extérieurs ou intérieurs de la vulve.
- 4Découpure, à peu près en forme de lèvres, qui caractérisent les fleurs des plantes labiées.
- 5Bord d'une faille, paroi rocheuse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: llèvre,lvère,lèrve,lèver,lèvrre,lèvvre,èlvre
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Misspelling Variants of "lèvre"
Frequency rank: #13,423 in French
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