lever

/\lə.ve\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,370

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

lever is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire qu’une chose soit plus haut qu’elle n’était. Pronounced \lə.ve\. It ranks #2,370 in French word frequency. Often confused with live and love.

Key facts for lever
PropertyValue
Headwordlever
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\lə.ve\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,370
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of lever in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for lever is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,370 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 31 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lever, with forms such as "elver", "leevr", and "leverr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "live", "love", "lier", 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 lever, spelled L-E-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire qu’une chose soit plus haut qu’elle n’était.
  2. 2
    Redresser une personne ou une chose qui était dans une position horizontale.
  3. 3
    Porter.
  4. 4
    Aider quelqu’un à sortir du lit et à s’habiller.
  5. 5
    Faire partir un gibier de son gîte, de sa cachette.
  6. 6
    Réussir à séduire quelqu’un.
  7. 7
    Pour un ou une prostitué(e), réussir à convaincre un client.
  8. 8
    Être le premier à soulever une question embarrassante ou un fait dissimulé.
  9. 9
    Ramasser au hasard.
  10. 10
    Ôter, enlever, retirer, écarter.
  11. 11
    Retirer de l’eau
  12. 12
    Arracher, avec la portion de terre qui tient à leurs racines, afin de les transplanter, en parlant d’un arbre, d’une plante.
  13. 13
    Faire cesser, écarter, dissiper.
  14. 14
    Révoquer.
  15. 15
    Couper une partie sur un tout, surtout en parlant des étoffes.
  16. 16
    Couper un membre ou quelque partie d’un animal qui sert à la nourriture.
  17. 17
    Percevoir, recueillir, rassembler, ramasser, emporter.
  18. 18
    Emprunter des fonds.
  19. 19
    Enrôler et armer.
  20. 20
    Se faire délivrer l’expédition d’un arrêt, d’une sentence, d’un acte.
  21. 21
    Mesurer pour tracer un plan.
  22. 22
    Commencer à pousser et à sortir de terre, en parlant des plantes, des graines.
  23. 23
    Fermenter en parlant de la pâte.
  24. 24
    Se dresser, se mettre debout sur ses pieds.
  25. 25
    Quitter une position assise pour partir, à table, au bureau, dans une assemblée.
  26. 26
    se soulever, s’insurger.
  27. 27
    Sortir du lit.
  28. 28
    Commencer à paraître sur l’horizon, en parlant du soleil et des astres.
  29. 29
    Commencer à poindre, en parlant du jour.
  30. 30
    Commencer à souffler, en parlant du vent.
  31. 31
    Devenir moins maussade, en parlant du temps.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: elver,leevr,leverr,levre,levver,llever,lveer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lever

Misspelling Variants of "lever"

elver5leevr5leverr6levre5levver6llever6lveer5
Misspelling Variants of "lever"

Frequency rank: #2,370 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lever"?
"lever" is spelled L-E-V-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \lə.ve\.
What does "lever" mean?
As a verb, "lever" means: Faire qu’une chose soit plus haut qu’elle n’était.
What words are commonly confused with "lever"?
"lever" is commonly confused with "live", "love", "lier". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "lever"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lever" is \lə.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lever" come from?
"lever" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.