lévitation
\le.vi.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“lévitation” is uncommon French (frequency #50,951 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,951
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pour un objet ou une personne, fait de léviter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levitation · lévitation · French
lévitation · rank #50,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,951
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lynché
Nearest frequency peer: lynché (-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 « lévitation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lopin
lopin
49,054 corpus weight
- lor
lor
49,053 corpus weight
- lynché
lynché
49,051 corpus weight
- lévitation
lévitation
49,050 corpus weight
- machos
machos
49,048 corpus weight
- macs
macs
49,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lévitation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lévitation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.vi.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lévitation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lévitation is uncommon French at frequency #50,951 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.vi.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pour un objet ou une personne, fait de léviter.".
lévitation doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lévitation, spelled L-É-V-I-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pour un objet ou une personne, fait de léviter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lévitation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une bille en lévitation dans les airs.
– À un moment donné, voyez-vous, pendant qu’on jouait Mister Sandman, je n’ai plus senti mon corps. J’ai même dû m’envoler légèrement au-dessus du sol. M’avez-vous vue m’élever, comme dan un état de lévitation ? – Non, dis-je en riant, nous n’avons assisté à aucun phénomène de ce genre.
This word in other languages
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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