lièvre
French, noun/ljɛvʁ/
lièvre is spelled L-I-È-V-R-E (6 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written French, the 18,424th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lièvre is a French masculine noun meaning “hare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mammifère à longues oreilles, de la famille des Léporidés, qui a les pattes de derrière plus longues que…”.
What does lièvre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehare
lever un lièvre
- 2
masculinepacesetter, pacemaker, pacer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mammifère à longues oreilles, de la famille des Léporidés, qui a les pattes de derrière plus longues que celles de devant, ce qui le rend très rapide à la course. 2. Variante de lièvre d’Europe. 3. La chair de cet animal. 4. Coureur chargé de donner un rythme soutenu lors d'une course de fond ou demi-fond, de manière à favoriser un ou plusieurs concurrents ou, plus généralement, coureur qui peut servir de cible pour motiver d’autres coureurs.
noun: 1. Personne née durant l’année du Lièvre du zodiaque chinois.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lièvre
- lièvres plural
- hase feminine
- Lièvres plural masculine feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lièvre?
- /ljɛvʁ/
- \ljɛvʁ\
- [œ̃ ljɛvʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lièvre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lièvre in French?
lièvre appears 2.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).