élément
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,207
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
élément is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie unitaire d’un ensemble. Pronounced \e.le.mɑ̃\. It ranks #2,207 in French word frequency. Often confused with eleven and élèvent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.le.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élément is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.le.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,207 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for élément, with forms such as "element", "léément", and "éllément". 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 also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "eleven", "élèvent", "élevant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 élément, spelled É-L-É-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie unitaire d’un ensemble.
- 2Objet mathématique.
- 3Catégorie immatérielle rassemblant les atomes possédant le même nombre de protons; représentée par un symbole chimique elle est caractérisée par un numéro atomique et une masse atomique.
- 4Une des substances composées ou simples qui constituent un corps.
- 5Un des couples de plaques de zinc et de cuivre ou d’un autre métal, dont on se sert pour construire les piles voltaïques dites à auges.
- 6Toute chose qui entre dans la composition d’une autre, qui contribue à la former.
- 7Élément primordial, une des 4 ou 5 substances (généralement l’air, le feu, la terre et l’eau) que l’on croyait simples, parce qu’on ne savait pas les décomposer, et que l’on supposait être les principes constituants de la matière.
- 8Les diverses conditions de sol, de climat, de saison.
- 9Milieu dans lequel vit et se meut un être animé, un organisme.
- 10Contexte ou activité dans laquelle une personne se sent à l’aise et s’épanouit.
- 11Principes d’un art ou d’une science.
- 12Rudiment.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: element,léément,éllément,élméent,éléemnt,élémennt,élémentt,élémetn,élémment,élémnet,éélment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for élément
Misspelling Variants of "élément"
Frequency rank: #2,207 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter É in our French index: