élégante
\e.le.ɡɑ̃t\
The verdict
“élégante” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,504
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui affecte l’élégance dans sa toilette et dans ses manières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elegante · élégante · French
élégante · rank #12,504 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,504
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH élargissement
Nearest frequency peer: élargissement (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « élégante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vécue
vécue
87,500 corpus weight
- échos
échos
87,499 corpus weight
- élargisseme…
élargissement
87,498 corpus weight
- élégante
élégante
87,497 corpus weight
- émeute
émeute
87,496 corpus weight
- érosion
érosion
87,495 corpus weight
What this shows « élégante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | élégante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.ɡɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « élégante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around élégante (IPA \e.le.ɡɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,504 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for élégante, with forms such as "elegante", "léégante", and "élgéante". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "élevant", "élégants", "élégantes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is élégante, spelled É-L-É-G-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui affecte l’élégance dans sa toilette et dans ses manières.
- 2Autre nom donné au cyclostome élégant (Pomatias elegans).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how élégante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cette époque, le Jardin Turc fut le rendez-vous des élégants et élégantes du Marais, du faubourg Saint-Antoine et lieux circonvoisins.
Dans la Rome du Iᵉʳ siècle , les élégantes de la société aisée étaient très friandes des objets exotiques de luxe, et tout particulièrement des étoffes de soie, dont l’origine unique était le lieu appelé par les Romains pays de Sèvres, c’est-à-dire la Chine.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elegante
- léégante
- élgéante
- éllégante
- éléagnte
- éléganet
- élégannte
- élégantte
- élégatne
- éléggante
- élégnate
- éélgante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of élégante - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).