illégitimes
\i.le.ʒi.tim\
The verdict
“illégitimes” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,002
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de illégitime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illegitimes · illégitimes · French
illégitimes · rank #32,002 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #32,002
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH IGPN
Nearest frequency peer: IGPN (-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 « illégitimes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- identifiants
identifiants
68,002 corpus weight
- idyllique
idyllique
68,001 corpus weight
- IGPN
IGPN
68,000 corpus weight
- illégitimes
illégitimes
67,999 corpus weight
- imaginables
imaginables
67,998 corpus weight
- imitations
imitations
67,997 corpus weight
What this shows « illégitimes » 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 | illégitimes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \i.le.ʒi.tim\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #32,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illégitimes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around illégitimes (IPA \i.le.ʒi.tim\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,002 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de illégitime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for illégitimes, with forms such as "illegitimes", "illgéitimes", and "illéggitimes". 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, "illégitime", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 illégitimes, spelled I-L-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de illégitime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how illégitimes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- illegitimes
- illgéitimes
- illéggitimes
- illégiitmes
- illégitiems
- illégitimess
- illégitimmes
- illégitimse
- illégitmies
- illégittimes
- illégtiimes
- illéigtimes
- ilégitimes
- ilélgitimes
- lilégitimes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illégitimes - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).