lèvre inférieure

/\lɛ.vʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\/ noun

Letters

16 characters

Language

French

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Misspellings

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lèvre inférieure is aFrenchnoun. It means: L’inférieure des deux lèvres d’un individu. Pronounced \lɛ.vʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\.

Key facts for lèvre inférieure
PropertyValue
Headwordlèvre inférieure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lɛ.vʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lèvre inférieure is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lèvre inférieure is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ.vʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\. 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: "L’inférieure des deux lèvres d’un individu.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lèvre inférieure in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 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 inférieure, spelled L-È-V-R-E- -I-N-F-É-R-I-E-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    L’inférieure des deux lèvres d’un individu.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lèvre inférieure"?
"lèvre inférieure" is spelled L-È-V-R-E- -I-N-F-É-R-I-E-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lɛ.vʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\.
What does "lèvre inférieure" mean?
As a noun, "lèvre inférieure" means: L’inférieure des deux lèvres d’un individu.
How do you pronounce "lèvre inférieure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lèvre inférieure" is \lɛ.vʁ‿ɛ̃.fe.ʁjœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lèvre inférieure" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.