levure

\lə.vyʁ\

/\lə.vyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“levure” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,056
frequency rank, French
2,567
“L” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écume que fait la bière quand elle fermente, et dont les boulangers et les pâtissiers se servent quelquefois au lieu d’autre levain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-levure · levure · French

levure · rank #19,056 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,056
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,567
  • PHOTO-FINISH laïcs

Nearest frequency peer: laïcs (-2 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « levure »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « levure » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

levure vs lure
67% similar
levure vs livre
67% similar
levure vs lièvre
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for levure
PropertyValue
Headwordlevure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\lə.vyʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,056
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « levure »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).levurese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « laïcs » (#19,054), « lisait » (#19,058), « lacets » (#19,053). Parmi 2,567 lemmes en « L », « levure » est au #19,056. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around levure (IPA \lə.vyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,056 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for levure, with forms such as "elvure", "leuvre", and "levrue". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lure", "livre", "lièvre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is levure, spelled L-E-V-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écume que fait la bière quand elle fermente, et dont les boulangers et les pâtissiers se servent quelquefois au lieu d’autre levain.
  2. 2
    Champignon unicellulaire apte à provoquer la fermentation des matières organiques, animales ou végétales, utilisé pour la fermentation alcoolique des solutions sucrées ou pour faire lever la pâte du pain.
  3. 3
    Produit chimique, souvent à base d’hydrocarbonates, qui provoque la levée d’une pâte sans fermentation.
  4. 4
    Ce qu’on lève de dessus et de dessous le lard à larder.
  5. 5
    Morceau persillé de porc situé au-dessus de la longe.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how levure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Levure de bière.
  2. L’acétyl-pyrroline provient de l’ornithine ou de la proline. Lors de la cuisson du pain blanc, l’ornithine est produite par la levure, dans laquelle elle apparaît en concentration quatre fois plus élevée que la proline libre.

This word in other languages

yeast(English)levadura(Español)Hefe(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • elvure
  • leuvre
  • levrue
  • levuer
  • levurre
  • levvure
  • llevure
  • lveure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of levure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

elvure2leuvre2levrue2levuer2levurre1levvure1llevure1lveure2
Edit distance from "levure"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "levure"?
"levure" is spelled L-E-V-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \lə.vyʁ\.
What does "levure" mean?
As a noun, "levure" means: Écume que fait la bière quand elle fermente, et dont les boulangers et les pâtissiers se servent quelquefois au lieu d’autre levain.
What words are commonly confused with "levure"?
"levure" is commonly confused with "lure", "livre", "lièvre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "levure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "levure" is \lə.vyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "levure" come from?
"levure" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "levure", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

lisait#19,058lacets#19,053lâchez#19,063mitigé#19,071

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

lorrain8 variantsgrises8 variantsorteil8 variantsPamela8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list