levure
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,056
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
levure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écume que fait la bière quand elle fermente, et dont les boulangers et les pâtissiers se servent quelquefois au lieu d’autre levain. Pronounced \lə.vyʁ\. Often confused with lure and livre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | levure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lə.vyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for levure is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.vyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,056 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for levure, with forms such as "elvure", "leuvre", and "levrue". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lure", "livre", "lièvre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is levure, spelled L-E-V-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Écume que fait la bière quand elle fermente, et dont les boulangers et les pâtissiers se servent quelquefois au lieu d’autre levain.
- 2Champignon 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.
- 3Produit chimique, souvent à base d’hydrocarbonates, qui provoque la levée d’une pâte sans fermentation.
- 4Ce qu’on lève de dessus et de dessous le lard à larder.
- 5Morceau persillé de porc situé au-dessus de la longe.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elvure,leuvre,levrue,levuer,levurre,levvure,llevure,lveure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for levure
Misspelling Variants of "levure"
Frequency rank: #19,056 in French
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