élevage

/\ɛl.vaʒ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for élevage
PropertyValue
Headwordélevage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛl.vaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,205
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action d’élever les animaux domestiques.
  2. 2
    Troupeau de ces animaux domestiques.
  3. 3
    Les bâtiments où loge ce troupeau.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des techniques et des bonnes pratiques de la production d’animaux.
  5. 5
    Métier des éleveurs de bestiaux.
  6. 6
    Action d’éduquer des enfants ou de jeunes individus.
  7. 7
    Une des étapes de la transformation de certains vins, après la macération et la fermentation, et avant l’assemblage.

Synonyms

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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"

elevage7léevage7éelvage7éleavge7élevaeg7élevagge8élevgae7élevvage8
Misspelling Variants of "élevage"

Frequency rank: #5,205 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "élevage"?
"élevage" is spelled É-L-E-V-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛl.vaʒ\.
What does "élevage" mean?
As a noun, "élevage" means: Action d’élever les animaux domestiques.
What words are commonly confused with "élevage"?
"élevage" is commonly confused with "élève", "élevée", "élevait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "élevage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "élevage" is \ɛl.vaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "élevage" come from?
"élevage" 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.