léviter
\le.vi.te\
The verdict
“léviter” is uncommon French (frequency #82,205 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,205
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’élever au dessus d’une surface sans contact avec celle-ci et contre la pesanteur, par exemple sous l’effet d’une force physique comme la force électromagnétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-leviter · léviter · French
léviter · rank #82,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,205
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH légalisant
Nearest frequency peer: légalisant (-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 « léviter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lotos
lotos
17,800 corpus weight
- lâchetés
lâchetés
17,799 corpus weight
- légalisant
légalisant
17,797 corpus weight
- léviter
léviter
17,796 corpus weight
- Mafalda
Mafalda
17,794 corpus weight
- magnifie
magnifie
17,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « léviter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | léviter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le.vi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « léviter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
léviter is uncommon French at frequency #82,205 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \le.vi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "S’élever au dessus d’une surface sans contact avec celle-ci et contre la pesanteur, par exemple sous l’effet d’une force physique comme la force électromagnétique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for léviter in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is léviter, spelled L-É-V-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’élever au dessus d’une surface sans contact avec celle-ci et contre la pesanteur, par exemple sous l’effet d’une force physique comme la force électromagnétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how léviter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le principe repose sur la sustentation magnétique (ou Maglev) qui permet au train, en quelque sorte, de léviter au-dessus des voies.
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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