leven
\ˈle.βen\
The verdict
“leven” is uncommon French (frequency #82,182 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,182
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de levar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leven · leven · French
leven · rank #82,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,182
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lessines
Nearest frequency peer: Lessines (-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 « leven »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Latinas
Latinas
17,824 corpus weight
- Lefébure
Lefébure
17,822 corpus weight
- Lessines
Lessines
17,820 corpus weight
- leven
leven
17,819 corpus weight
- Leys
Leys
17,817 corpus weight
- liar
liar
17,815 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « leven » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leven |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈle.βen\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « leven » en français
Rare enough to double-check
leven is uncommon French at frequency #82,182 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈle.βen\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
leven doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is leven, spelled L-E-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de levar.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de levar.
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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