levity
\ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti\
The verdict
“levity” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Légèreté (de manières) ; nonchalance ; manque de sérieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-levity · levity · French
levity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levity |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
levity is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈlɛ.vɪ.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for levity in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is levity, spelled L-E-V-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Légèreté (de manières) ; nonchalance ; manque de sérieux.
- 2Instabilité.
- 3Flottabilité, légèreté.
- 4Frivolité ; acte frivole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how levity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hydrogen … rises in the air on account of its levity.
For though it be something wonderful to tell that any should have hearts so hardened, in the midst of such a calamity, as to rob and steal, yet certain it is that all sorts of villainies, and even levities and debaucheries, were then practiced in the town as openly as ever: I will not say quite as frequently, because the number of people were many ways le…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.