élider
\e.li.de\
The verdict
“élider” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supprimer une voyelle finale dans l’écriture ou dans la prononciation devant un mot commençant par une voyelle ou un H muet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elider · élider · French
élider · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "É" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élider |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.li.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « élider » en français
Rare enough to double-check
élider is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \e.li.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
élider doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 élider, spelled É-L-I-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Supprimer une voyelle finale dans l’écriture ou dans la prononciation devant un mot commençant par une voyelle ou un H muet.
- 2Supprimer une voyelle finale devant un autre mot à initiale vocalique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how élider appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On met une apostrophe dans l’écriture à la place de la voyelle qu’on élide.
Le A de « la » s’élide dans « l’âme ».
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.