delimit
/dɪˈlɪmɪt/
"delimit" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“delimit” is uncommon English (frequency #92,525 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,525
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To mark or fix the limits of.
Corpus desk
Index EN-delimit · delimit · English
delimit · rank #92,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,525
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Democritus
Nearest frequency peer: Democritus (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “delimit”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Decalogue
Decalogue
7,480 corpus weight
- deckhand
deckhand
7,479 corpus weight
- delimit
delimit
7,476 corpus weight
- Democritus
Democritus
7,475 corpus weight
- demotic
demotic
7,474 corpus weight
- dices
dices
7,471 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “delimit” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delimit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈlɪmɪt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “delimit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
delimit is uncommon English at frequency #92,525 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈlɪmɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To mark or fix the limits of.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for delimit in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“I limit, I bound”); see limit. The correct English form is delimit, spelled D-E-L-I-M-I-T.
Definition
- 1To mark or fix the limits of.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how delimit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: (literal) demarcate; (figurative) limit, constrain
Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.
Etymology
From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“I limit, I bound”); see limit.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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