lévrière
\le.vʁi.jɛʁ\
The verdict
“lévrière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Femelle du lévrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levriere · lévrière · French
lévrière · 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 | lévrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.vʁi.jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
lévrière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.vʁi.jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femelle du lévrier.".
lévrière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is lévrière, spelled L-É-V-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle du lévrier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lévrière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un habitant du Sahara fait souvent 25 ou 30 lieues pour accoupler une belle lévrière avec un lévrier renommé, c’est-à-dire un animal qui prend la gazelle à la course.
Il l’avait prise à un autre homme, cette blonde longue et magnifique, qui ressemblait à une lévrière en laisse.
Synonyms
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.