élevant
\e.lə.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“élevant” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,026. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,026
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de élever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elevant · élevant · French
élevant · rank #20,026 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,026
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éducatifs
Nearest frequency peer: éducatifs (-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 « élevant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- édification
édification
79,977 corpus weight
- éducatifs
éducatifs
79,976 corpus weight
- élevant
élevant
79,975 corpus weight
- élysées
élysées
79,974 corpus weight
- épanouir
épanouir
79,973 corpus weight
- évier
évier
79,972 corpus weight
What this shows « élevant » 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 | élevant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.lə.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « élevant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around élevant (IPA \e.lə.vɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,026 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de élever.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for élevant, with forms such as "elevant", "léevant", and "éelvant". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "eleven", "élèvent", "enlèvent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 élevant, spelled É-L-E-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de élever.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how élevant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entends-moi, dit-il en élevant la voix, il faut que tu me donnes cette cassette.
Enfin, la racine s’intègre vocaliquement et se renforce soit en s’élevant d’un degré sur l’échelle vocalique, soit en se diphthonguant avec la voyelle supérieure ou avec la voyelle inférieure sur la même ligne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elevant
- léevant
- éelvant
- éleavnt
- élevannt
- élevantt
- élevatn
- élevnat
- élevvant
- éllevant
- élveant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of élevant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "élevant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).