levaient
\lə.vɛ\
The verdict
“levaient” is uncommon French (frequency #78,577 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,577
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lever.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levaient · levaient · French
levaient · rank #78,577 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,577
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lesieur
Nearest frequency peer: Lesieur (-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 « levaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lecocq
Lecocq
21,428 corpus weight
- Lesieur
Lesieur
21,425 corpus weight
- levaient
levaient
21,424 corpus weight
- LFB
LFB
21,422 corpus weight
- Libya
Libya
21,421 corpus weight
- Limassol
Limassol
21,419 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « levaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \lə.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,577 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « levaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
levaient is uncommon French at frequency #78,577 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \lə.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lever.".
levaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is levaient, spelled L-E-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de lever.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how levaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dieux ne levaient plus le bras pour faire le salut fasciste, n’allaient plus à la chasse avec le Caudillo, ne fréquentaient plus les putes de luxe avec le gendre de Sa Majesté.
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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