lézard des murailles
\le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\
The verdict
“lézard des murailles” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Espèce de petit lézard d’Europe, qui a aussi été introduit en Amérique du Nord, de forme élancée, brun, gris ou même verdâtre, extrêmement polymorphe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lézard des murailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lézard des murailles” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lézard des murailles is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\. 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: "Espèce de petit lézard d’Europe, qui a aussi été introduit en Amérique du Nord, de forme élancée, brun, gris ou même verdâtre, extrêmement polymorphe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for lézard des murailles in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 lézard des murailles, spelled L-É-Z-A-R-D- -D-E-S- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit lézard d’Europe, qui a aussi été introduit en Amérique du Nord, de forme élancée, brun, gris ou même verdâtre, extrêmement polymorphe.
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- The one correct French spelling is L-É-Z-A-R-D- -D-E-S- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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