élève
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,796
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
élève is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui reçoit ou qui a reçu l'enseignement de quelqu'un autre. Pronounced \e.lɛv\. It ranks #1,796 in French word frequency. Often confused with eve and elle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élève |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lɛv\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élève is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lɛv\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,796 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for élève, with forms such as "eleve", "léève", and "éllève". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eve", "elle", "épée", 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 élève, spelled É-L-È-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui reçoit ou qui a reçu l'enseignement de quelqu'un autre.
- 2Personne – généralement un enfant – qui suit des cours dans un établissement scolaire.
- 3Personne qui est ou qui a été instruite, formée par un maître dans un art ou une science.
- 4Par comparaison avec d’autres : bon élève, mauvais élève.
- 5Jeunes animaux reproduits dans les basses-cours, les fermes et les faisanderies.
- 6Croît de plantes provenant de semis.
- 7Engraissement, embouche, nourrissage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eleve,léève,éllève,élvèe,élèev,élèvve,éèlve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for élève
Misspelling Variants of "élève"
Frequency rank: #1,796 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter É in our French index: