oreille-de-lièvre
The verdict
“oreille-de-lièvre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espèce de champignons en forme d’oreille, jaune orangé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oreille-de-lièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oreille-de-lièvre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oreille-de-lièvre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de champignons en forme d’oreille, jaune orangé.".
oreille-de-lièvre has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is oreille-de-lièvre, spelled O-R-E-I-L-L-E---D-E---L-I-È-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de champignons en forme d’oreille, jaune orangé.
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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.
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Using “oreille-de-lièvre”
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- The one correct French spelling is O-R-E-I-L-L-E---D-E---L-I-È-V-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.