levai
\lə.ve\
The verdict
“levai” is uncommon French (frequency #84,017 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,017
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de lever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levai · levai · French
levai · rank #84,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,017
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Libramont
Nearest frequency peer: Libramont (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « levai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lectio
lectio
15,989 corpus weight
- levai
levai
15,984 corpus weight
- Libramont
Libramont
15,983 corpus weight
- libraries
libraries
15,982 corpus weight
- lita
lita
15,980 corpus weight
- Livio
Livio
15,978 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « levai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lə.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « levai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
levai is uncommon French at frequency #84,017 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lə.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de lever.".
levai has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is levai, spelled L-E-V-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de lever.
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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