élit
\e.li\
The verdict
“élit” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,669
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de élire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elit · élit · French
élit · rank #27,669 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,669
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH éditorialiste
Nearest frequency peer: éditorialiste (-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 « élit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- échevin
échevin
72,335 corpus weight
- écusson
écusson
72,334 corpus weight
- éditorialis…
éditorialiste
72,333 corpus weight
- élit
élit
72,332 corpus weight
- éteints
éteints
72,331 corpus weight
- éther
éther
72,330 corpus weight
What this shows « élit » 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 | élit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \e.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « élit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around élit (IPA \e.li\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,669 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de élire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for élit, with forms such as "elit", "léit", and "éilt". 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, "et", "Est", "élu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is élit, spelled É-L-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de élire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elit
- léit
- éilt
- élitt
- éllit
- élti
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of élit - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).