s’élargir
\s‿e.laʁ.ʒiʁ\
The verdict
“s’élargir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme pronominale de élargir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-elargir · s’élargir · French
s’élargir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | s’élargir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿e.laʁ.ʒiʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « s’élargir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
s’élargir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿e.laʁ.ʒiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme pronominale de élargir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for s’élargir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is s’élargir, spelled S-’-É-L-A-R-G-I-R.
Definition
- 1Forme pronominale de élargir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how s’élargir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À mesure que les rives du fleuve s’élargissent et que je descends vers la mer, je sens tomber de mes épaules le manteau de douceur dont m’enveloppait ton amour.
This word in other languages
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.