illégitime
\i.le.ʒi.tim\
The verdict
“illégitime” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,157
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’est pas légitime, qui n'a pas de légitimité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illegitime · illégitime · French
illégitime · rank #17,157 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,157
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH implantée
Nearest frequency peer: implantée (+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 « illégitime »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- hypothèque
hypothèque
82,847 corpus weight
- hystérique
hystérique
82,846 corpus weight
- illégitime
illégitime
82,844 corpus weight
- implantée
implantée
82,843 corpus weight
- implicite
implicite
82,842 corpus weight
- incluse
incluse
82,840 corpus weight
What this shows « illégitime » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illégitime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.le.ʒi.tim\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illégitime »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around illégitime (IPA \i.le.ʒi.tim\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,157 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for illégitime, with forms such as "illegitime", "illgéitime", and "illéggitime". 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, "illégitimes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is illégitime, spelled I-L-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui n’est pas légitime, qui n'a pas de légitimité.
- 2Qualifie un gouvernement qui n'émane pas de la nation.
- 3Qualifiait un couple qui n'était pas consacré par le mariage.
- 4Qualifiait la naissance d'un enfant hors du mariage et cet enfant lui-même.
- 5Qui est injuste, déraisonnable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illégitime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les musulmans, guidés par leurs ulémas, rejetaient purement et simplement comme illégitime un pouvoir temporel très présent pour eux.
Que le nombre important de naissances illégitimes soit une marque d'immoralité, je le veux bien ; encore est-il qu'il faut faire des distinctions et examiner si ce n'est pas plutôt un signe d'irrégularité que d'immoralité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illegitime
- illgéitime
- illéggitime
- illégiitme
- illégitiem
- illégitimme
- illégitmie
- illégittime
- illégtiime
- illéigtime
- ilégitime
- ilélgitime
- lilégitime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illégitime - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).