élevèrent

\e.lə.vɛʁ\

/\e.lə.vɛʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“élevèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #66,446 among 1,805 “É” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,446
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de élever.

Corpus desk

Index FR-eleverent · élevèrent · French

élevèrent · rank #66,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,446
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH élevons

Nearest frequency peer: élevons (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « élevèrent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « élevèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for élevèrent
PropertyValue
Headwordélevèrent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\e.lə.vɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,446
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « élevèrent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.élevèrenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « élevons » (#66,445), « élucidation » (#66,447), « élucidée » (#66,448). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « élevèrent » est au #66,446. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

élevèrent is uncommon French at frequency #66,446 among 1,805 “É” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \e.lə.vɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de élever.".

No misspelling variants are generated for élevèrent in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 élevèrent, spelled É-L-E-V-È-R-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de élever.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how élevèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Des chut ! s’élevèrent aussitôt, mais les deux acrobates avaient compris l’allusion et ils se sentirent mal à l’aise.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "élevèrent"?
"élevèrent" is spelled É-L-E-V-È-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.lə.vɛʁ\.
What does "élevèrent" mean?
As a verb, "élevèrent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de élever.
How do you pronounce "élevèrent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "élevèrent" is \e.lə.vɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "élevèrent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list