nivellement

\ni.vɛl.mɑ̃\

/\ni.vɛl.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“nivellement” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,149
frequency rank, French
1,563
“N” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de rendre un plan uni et horizontal.

Corpus desk

Index FR-nivellement · nivellement · French

nivellement · rank #27,149 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #27,149
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,563
  • PHOTO-FINISH nichons

Nearest frequency peer: nichons (-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.

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

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

corpus weight

What this shows « nivellement » 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).

nivellement vs nouvellement
83% similar

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

Key facts for nivellement
PropertyValue
Headwordnivellement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ni.vɛl.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#27,149
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « nivellement »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.nivellementse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « nichons » (#27,148), « nounours » (#27,150), « Ney » (#27,147). Parmi 1,563 lemmes en « N », « nivellement » est au #27,149. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around nivellement (IPA \ni.vɛl.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,149 among 1,563 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for nivellement, with forms such as "invellement", "nievllement", and "nivelelment". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nouvellement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 nivellement, spelled N-I-V-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de rendre un plan uni et horizontal.
  2. 2
    Action d’amener au même niveau, de normaliser.
  3. 3
    Simplification d’un paradigme par utilisation d’un même radical ou d’un même affixe pour plusieurs formes. Par exemple, en ancien français, on disait j’aim et nous amons ; par le nivellement des voyelles on dit aujourd’hui j’aime et nous aimons.
  4. 4
    Action de mesurer avec le niveau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cependant, il commençait à se niveler à son sommet. On résolut donc de continuer ce travail de nivellement pendant toute la nuit ; […]
  2. En plus de rendre le vignoble souffreteux, ce nivellement génétique influe sur le goût du vin, qui est uniformisé. — (« Vin : Un coup de moût dans le vignoble », Malbouffe, le dico, Les Dossiers du Canard enchaîné nᵒ 147, avril 2018, page 85)

This word in other languages

Nivellierung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • invellement
  • nievllement
  • nivelelment
  • nivelement
  • nivelleemnt
  • nivellemennt
  • nivellementt
  • nivellemetn
  • nivellemment
  • nivellemnet
  • nivellmeent
  • nivlelement
  • nivvellement
  • nnivellement
  • nviellement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

invellement2nievllement2nivelelment2nivelement1nivelleemnt2nivellemennt1nivellementt1nivellemetn2
Edit distance from "nivellement"

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 "nivellement"?
"nivellement" is spelled N-I-V-E-L-L-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ni.vɛl.mɑ̃\.
What does "nivellement" mean?
As a noun, "nivellement" means: Action de rendre un plan uni et horizontal.
What words are commonly confused with "nivellement"?
"nivellement" is commonly confused with "nouvellement". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "nivellement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "nivellement" is \ni.vɛl.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "nivellement" come from?
"nivellement" 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 "nivellement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

nouvelliste#27,151mécaniciens#27,141Montbéliard#27,134politologue#27,188

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

objectives15 variantsmanqueront15 variantslisibilité15 variantsponctuelles15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list