lévriers
\le.vʁi.je\
The verdict
“lévriers” is uncommon French (frequency #58,072 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,072
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lévrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levriers · lévriers · French
lévriers · rank #58,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,072
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH madrigal
Nearest frequency peer: madrigal (+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 « lévriers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lexie
lexie
41,934 corpus weight
- Lied
Lied
41,933 corpus weight
- lévriers
lévriers
41,929 corpus weight
- madrigal
madrigal
41,928 corpus weight
- Madsen
Madsen
41,927 corpus weight
- malicieusem…
malicieusement
41,923 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lévriers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lévriers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.vʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lévriers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lévriers is uncommon French at frequency #58,072 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.vʁi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lévrier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lévriers in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is lévriers, spelled L-É-V-R-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lévrier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lévriers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les amateurs de la chasse prétendent que le lièvre est en proie à une agonie plus terrible pendant la poursuite des lévriers que lorsqu’il se débat entre leurs griffes.
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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