levrette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,249
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
levrette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femelle du lévrier. Pronounced \lə.vʁɛt\. Often confused with Lorette and lurette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levrette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lə.vʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for levrette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.vʁɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,249 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for levrette, with forms such as "elvrette", "lervette", and "levertte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Lorette", "lurette", "Laurette", 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 levrette, spelled L-E-V-R-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femelle du lévrier.
- 2Position sexuelle proche de celle de la cuillère où un des partenaires se présente de dos, tandis que l’autre le pénètre par derrière.
- 3Outil proche du chemin de fer et destiné à tailler la pierre.
- 4Meuble représentant la femelle du lévrier dans les armoiries. Elle se différencie du lévrier par le manque de vilenie. À rapprocher de chien, goupil, lévrier, loup et renard.
- 5Spécialité culinaire de la ville de Charmes, dans les Vosges, composée d’une nougatine enrobée de chocolat amer et fourrée d’une ganache au parfum de framboise.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elvrette,lervette,levertte,levrete,levretet,levrrette,levrtete,levvrette,llevrette,lverette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "levrette"
Frequency rank: #30,249 in French
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