élévation
French, noun/e.le.va.sjɔ̃/
élévation is spelled É-L-É-V-A-T-I-O-N (9 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written French, the 11,729th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Élévation is a French feminine noun meaning “elevation (height above something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’élever, de s’élever ou résultat de cette action”.
What does élévation mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineelevation (height above something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’élever, de s’élever ou résultat de cette action. 2. Hauteur. 3. Grandeur d’âme, noblesse de sentiments, grandeur dans les conceptions. 4. Projection orthogonale sur un plan vertical parallèle à une face des parties externes d’un ouvrage ou d’une pièce d’ouvrage.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of élévation
- élévations plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce élévation?
- /e.le.va.sjɔ̃/
- \e.le.va.sjɔ̃\
- [elevasjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to élévation
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is élévation in French?
élévation appears 4.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).