élasticité

/\e.las.ti.si.te\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#25,178

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

élasticité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Propriété qu’ont les corps solides d’accepter une déformation temporaire et de reprendre leur forme dès que les causes de cette déformation ont cessé d’agir. Pronounced \e.las.ti.si.te\.

Key facts for élasticité
PropertyValue
Headwordélasticité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.las.ti.si.te\
Letters10
Frequency rank#25,178
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of élasticité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for élasticité is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.las.ti.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #25,178 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for élasticité, with forms such as "elasticite", "léasticité", and "éalsticité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 élasticité, spelled É-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Propriété qu’ont les corps solides d’accepter une déformation temporaire et de reprendre leur forme dès que les causes de cette déformation ont cessé d’agir.
  2. 2
    Propriété qu’ont les corps solides d’accepter une déformation temporaire et de reprendre leur forme dès que les causes de cette déformation ont cessé d’agir.
  3. 3
    Propriété qu’ont les corps solides d’accepter une déformation temporaire et de reprendre leur forme dès que les causes de cette déformation ont cessé d’agir.
  4. 4
    Mesure de cette propriété.
  5. 5
    Faculté de s’élargir.
  6. 6
    État de l’âme qui se relève après un découragement, un abattement.
  7. 7
    Variation d'une grandeur provoquée par la variation d'une autre grandeur.

Antonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: elasticite,léasticité,éalsticité,élasitcité,élassticité,élastciité,élasticcité,élasticitté,élasticiét,élastictié,élastiicté,élastticité,élatsicité,éllasticité,élsaticité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for élasticité

Misspelling Variants of "élasticité"

elasticite10léasticité10éalsticité10élasitcité10élassticité11élastciité10élasticcité11élasticitté11
Misspelling Variants of "élasticité"

Frequency rank: #25,178 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "élasticité"?
"élasticité" is spelled É-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \e.las.ti.si.te\.
What does "élasticité" mean?
As a noun, "élasticité" means: Propriété qu’ont les corps solides d’accepter une déformation temporaire et de reprendre leur forme dès que les causes de cette déformation ont cessé d’agir.
What are common misspellings of "élasticité"?
Common misspellings include "elasticite", "léasticité", "éalsticité", "élasitcité", "élassticité". The correct spelling is "élasticité".
How do you pronounce "élasticité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "élasticité" is \e.las.ti.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "élasticité" come from?
"élasticité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.