soulevant

\su.lə.vɑ̃\

/\su.lə.vɑ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“soulevant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,744
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de soulever.

Corpus desk

Index FR-soulevant · soulevant · French

soulevant · rank #31,744 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,744
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH souhaiteraient

Nearest frequency peer: souhaiteraient (-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 « soulevant »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « soulevant » 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).

soulevant vs soutenant
78% similar
soulevant vs soulèvent
78% similar
soulevant vs souvenant
78% similar

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

Key facts for soulevant
PropertyValue
Headwordsoulevant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\su.lə.vɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#31,744
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « soulevant »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).soulevantse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « souhaiteraient » (#31,743), « soupapes » (#31,745), « songez » (#31,742). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « soulevant » est au #31,744. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around soulevant (IPA \su.lə.vɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,744 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de soulever.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for soulevant, with forms such as "osulevant", "soluevant", and "souelvant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "soutenant", "soulèvent", "souvenant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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. The correct French form is soulevant, spelled S-O-U-L-E-V-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe présent de soulever.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’assistance, moitié café society, moitié avant-garde greenwichienne, commençait à s’impatienter et à taper du pied, soulevant une collante poussière aux relents de poisson pourri quand le rideau se leva non sans mal sur un décor de salle d’hôpital : un lit, une chaise, un fauteuil et un bougeoir pour des raisons qui n’apparurent jamais dans le texte.
  2. Les banquettes de velours noir sont disposées, comme au hasard, suivant les méandres d’un dédale de murettes : on peut, se soulevant sur une banquette, dominer l’autre.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • osulevant
  • soluevant
  • souelvant
  • souleavnt
  • soulevannt
  • soulevantt
  • soulevatn
  • soulevnat
  • soulevvant
  • soullevant
  • soulveant
  • ssoulevant
  • suolevant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soulevant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

osulevant2soluevant2souelvant2souleavnt2soulevannt1soulevantt1soulevatn2soulevnat2
Edit distance from "soulevant"

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 "soulevant"?
"soulevant" is spelled S-O-U-L-E-V-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \su.lə.vɑ̃\.
What does "soulevant" mean?
As a verb, "soulevant" means: Participe présent de soulever.
What words are commonly confused with "soulevant"?
"soulevant" is commonly confused with "soutenant", "soulèvent", "souvenant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "soulevant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "soulevant" is \su.lə.vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "soulevant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list