elfe
\ɛlf\
The verdict
“elfe” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,552
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Génie de l’air, dans la mythologie scandinave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elfe · elfe · French
elfe · rank #22,552 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,552
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH empirique
Nearest frequency peer: empirique (+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 « elfe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dépourvue
dépourvue
77,452 corpus weight
- dérivée
dérivée
77,451 corpus weight
- elfe
elfe
77,449 corpus weight
- empirique
empirique
77,448 corpus weight
- endommagés
endommagés
77,447 corpus weight
- enlevant
enlevant
77,446 corpus weight
What this shows « elfe » 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 | elfe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛlf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « elfe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around elfe (IPA \ɛlf\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,552 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for elfe, with forms such as "efle", "elef", and "elffe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "été", "élu", "eve", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is elfe, spelled E-L-F-E.
Definition
- 1Génie de l’air, dans la mythologie scandinave.
- 2Créature féerique ressemblant à un être humain mince souvent représenté avec des oreilles pointues.
- 3Jeune fille.
- 4Disque lumineux résultant d’un orage, apparaissant à environ 100 km d’altitude et s’entendant sur 200 à 500 km.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how elfe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’avez-vous pas erré sur les bruyères Reine, au milieu des elfes printanières ?
La charmeuse que j’aime est-elle Une ondine des lacs du Nord Aux amours humaines rebelle ? Une elfe aux blonds cheveux tressés Avec des nénuphars glacés ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efle
- elef
- elffe
- ellfe
- lefe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of elfe - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).