illégitime
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,157
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
illégitime is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui n’est pas légitime, qui n'a pas de légitimité. Pronounced \i.le.ʒi.tim\. Often confused with illégitimes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illégitime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \i.le.ʒi.tim\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for illégitime is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \i.le.ʒi.tim\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,157 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for illégitime, with forms such as "illegitime", "illgéitime", and "illéggitime". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "illégitimes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is illégitime, spelled I-L-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: illegitime,illgéitime,illéggitime,illégiitme,illégitiem,illégitimme,illégitmie,illégittime,illégtiime,illéigtime,ilégitime,ilélgitime,lilégitime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for illégitime
Misspelling Variants of "illégitime"
Frequency rank: #17,157 in French
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Nearby French words
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