Levine
/ləˈviːn/
"levine" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Levine” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,852
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Hebrew.
Corpus desk
Index EN-levine · Levine · English
Levine · rank #15,852 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,852
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leukemia
Nearest frequency peer: leukemia (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Levine”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kendrick
Kendrick
84,152 corpus weight
- ketchup
ketchup
84,151 corpus weight
- leukemia
leukemia
84,150 corpus weight
- Levine
Levine
84,149 corpus weight
- lineage
lineage
84,147 corpus weight
- liter
liter
84,146 corpus weight
What this shows “Levine” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Levine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ləˈviːn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Levine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Levine (IPA /ləˈviːn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,852 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Hebrew.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Levine, with forms such as "elvine", "leivne", and "levien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "line", "Lovin", "livin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Levine, from Russian Левин (Levin), from Леви (Levi) + -ин (-in, “forming possessives & adjectives”), ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (“Levi”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Levin. The correct English form is Levine, spelled L-E-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from Hebrew.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Levine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
Trump campaign adviser Jenna Ellis intentionally misgendered Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, on Twitter early Monday morning.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Levine, from Russian Левин (Levin), from Леви (Levi) + -ин (-in, “forming possessives & adjectives”), ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (“Levi”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Levin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elvine
- leivne
- levien
- levinne
- levnie
- levvine
- llevine
- lveine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Levine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).