lévrier
\le.vʁi.je\
The verdict
“lévrier” is uncommon French (frequency #53,470 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,470
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de chien haut monté sur jambes, qui a la tête longue et menue, le corps délié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levrier · lévrier · French
lévrier · rank #53,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,470
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH létales
Nearest frequency peer: létales (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lévrier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lémuriens
lémuriens
46,534 corpus weight
- lésée
lésée
46,533 corpus weight
- létales
létales
46,532 corpus weight
- lévrier
lévrier
46,531 corpus weight
- majorations
majorations
46,529 corpus weight
- maladroites
maladroites
46,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lévrier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lévrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.vʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lévrier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lévrier is uncommon French at frequency #53,470 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.vʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lévrier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lévrier, spelled L-É-V-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Sorte de chien haut monté sur jambes, qui a la tête longue et menue, le corps délié.
- 2Personne qu’on lance à la poursuite de quelqu’un.
- 3Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est représenté avec un collier dont on doit blasonner la couleur. À rapprocher de chien, goupil, levrette, loup et renard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lévrier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prince ! Prince ! cria le garde ; et il siffla, resiffla, point de lévrier.
Et quand il y fut, le sénéchal tança d’une verte manière les deux lévriers qui se disputaient un os de jambon.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).