lierre terrestre

noun

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The verdict

“lierre terrestre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plante herbacée de la famille des Labiacées, jadis utilisée en médecine, rampante, dont les feuilles ressemblent à celles du lierre.

Key facts for lierre terrestre
PropertyValue
Headwordlierre terrestre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “lierre terrestre” sits in French frequency

lierre terrestre 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.

Rare enough to double-check

lierre terrestre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante herbacée de la famille des Labiacées, jadis utilisée en médecine, rampante, dont les feuilles ressemblent à celles du lierre.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for lierre terrestre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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. The correct French form is lierre terrestre, spelled L-I-E-R-R-E- -T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante herbacée de la famille des Labiacées, jadis utilisée en médecine, rampante, dont les feuilles ressemblent à celles du lierre.

This word in other languages

ground ivy(English)Gundermann(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lierre terrestre"?
"lierre terrestre" is spelled L-I-E-R-R-E- -T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E.
What does "lierre terrestre" mean?
As a noun, "lierre terrestre" means: Plante herbacée de la famille des Labiacées, jadis utilisée en médecine, rampante, dont les feuilles ressemblent à celles du lierre.
What language does "lierre terrestre" come from?
"lierre terrestre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “lierre terrestre”

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

  • The one correct French spelling is L-I-E-R-R-E- -T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list