levee
\ˈlɛv.i\
The verdict
“levee” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Digue destinée à empêcher les inondations.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɛv.i\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “levee” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for levee is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈlɛv.i\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Digue destinée à empêcher les inondations.".
levee doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is levee, spelled L-E-V-E-E.
Definition
- 1Digue destinée à empêcher les inondations.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “levee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-V-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈlɛv.i\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.