élite
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,393
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
élite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Le plus digne d’être choisi, ainsi celui considéré comme le meilleur. Pronounced \e.lit\. It ranks #4,393 in French word frequency. Often confused with été and elle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | élite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.lit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,393 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for élite is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lit\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,393 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for élite, with forms such as "elite", "léite", and "éilte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "été", "elle", "élue", 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 élite, spelled É-L-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Le plus digne d’être choisi, ainsi celui considéré comme le meilleur.
- 2Classe ou caste d'individus, officielle ou non, considérés comme intrinsèquement supérieurs aux autres gens (en politique, économie, morale…).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elite,léite,éilte,éliet,élitte,éllite,éltie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for élite
Misspelling Variants of "élite"
Frequency rank: #4,393 in French
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Nearby French words
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