lézard des murailles

\le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\

/\le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\/ noun

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
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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.

Key facts for lézard des murailles
PropertyValue
Headwordlézard des murailles
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “lézard des murailles” sits in French frequency

lézard des murailles falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lézard des murailles"?
"lézard des murailles" is spelled L-É-Z-A-R-D- -D-E-S- -M-U-R-A-I-L-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\.
What does "lézard des murailles" mean?
As a noun, "lézard des murailles" means: 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.
How do you pronounce "lézard des murailles"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lézard des murailles" is \le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “lézard des murailles”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \le.zaʁ de my.ʁaj\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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