petites lèvres
\pə.tit lɛvʁ\
The verdict
“petites lèvres” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Les deux replis de peau protecteurs encadrant la sortie du vagin, situés sur la vulve entre les grandes lèvres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petites lèvres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.tit lɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “petites lèvres” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for petites lèvres is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.tit lɛvʁ\. 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: "Les deux replis de peau protecteurs encadrant la sortie du vagin, situés sur la vulve entre les grandes lèvres.".
No misspelling variants are generated for petites lèvres 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 petites lèvres, spelled P-E-T-I-T-E-S- -L-È-V-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Les deux replis de peau protecteurs encadrant la sortie du vagin, situés sur la vulve entre les grandes lèvres.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-T-I-T-E-S- -L-È-V-R-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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