lévites
\le.vit\
The verdict
“lévites” is uncommon French (frequency #89,884 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,884
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de lévite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levites · lévites · French
lévites · rank #89,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,884
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Léopoldine
Nearest frequency peer: Léopoldine (-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 « lévites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lâchons
lâchons
10,120 corpus weight
- lémurien
lémurien
10,119 corpus weight
- Léopoldine
Léopoldine
10,118 corpus weight
- lévites
lévites
10,117 corpus weight
- Lübeck
Lübeck
10,116 corpus weight
- machiavélis…
machiavélisme
10,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lévites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lévites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.vit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lévites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lévites is uncommon French at frequency #89,884 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.vit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de lévite.".
lévites doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is lévites, spelled L-É-V-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de lévite.
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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