levage
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,376
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
levage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de lever ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \lə.vaʒ\. Often confused with leve and lèvre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lə.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #39,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for levage is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.vaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,376 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for levage, with forms such as "elvage", "leavge", and "levaeg". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "leve", "lèvre", "levant", 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 levage, spelled L-E-V-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de lever ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Action du levain, de la levure, sur la pâte.
- 3Manière propre à la région du Médoc d'attacher les vignes.
- 4Une des opérations spécifiques de la fabrication de la dentelle d'Alençon.
- 5Mise en place d'une charpente.
- 6Lors de la cuisson du savon, mousse qui surnage et s'élève sur le dessus du récipient.
- 7Tentative de séduction, drague.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elvage,leavge,levaeg,levagge,levgae,levvage,llevage,lveage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for levage
Misspelling Variants of "levage"
Frequency rank: #39,376 in French
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