élevage
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,205
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
élevage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’élever les animaux domestiques. Pronounced \ɛl.vaʒ\. It ranks #5,205 in French word frequency. Often confused with élève and élevée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élevage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛl.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élevage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛl.vaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,205 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for élevage, with forms such as "elevage", "léevage", and "éelvage". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "élève", "élevée", "élevait", 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 élevage, spelled É-L-E-V-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’élever les animaux domestiques.
- 2Troupeau de ces animaux domestiques.
- 3Les bâtiments où loge ce troupeau.
- 4Ensemble des techniques et des bonnes pratiques de la production d’animaux.
- 5Métier des éleveurs de bestiaux.
- 6Action d’éduquer des enfants ou de jeunes individus.
- 7Une des étapes de la transformation de certains vins, après la macération et la fermentation, et avant l’assemblage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elevage,léevage,éelvage,éleavge,élevaeg,élevagge,élevgae,élevvage,éllevage,élveage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for élevage
Misspelling Variants of "élevage"
Frequency rank: #5,205 in French
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Nearby French words
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