illégitimité
\i.le.ʒi.ti.mi.te\
The verdict
“illégitimité” is uncommon French (frequency #62,354 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,354
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est illégitime, de ce qui n’a aucune légitimité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-illegitimite · illégitimité · French
illégitimité · rank #62,354 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,354
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH idéaliser
Nearest frequency peer: idéaliser (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « illégitimité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hypnotiques
hypnotiques
37,651 corpus weight
- idéaliser
idéaliser
37,648 corpus weight
- illégitimité
illégitimité
37,647 corpus weight
- impures
impures
37,645 corpus weight
- imputées
imputées
37,644 corpus weight
- IMs
IMs
37,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « illégitimité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | illégitimité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \i.le.ʒi.ti.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #62,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « illégitimité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
illégitimité is uncommon French at frequency #62,354 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \i.le.ʒi.ti.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est illégitime, de ce qui n’a aucune légitimité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for illégitimité in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is illégitimité, spelled I-L-L-É-G-I-T-I-M-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est illégitime, de ce qui n’a aucune légitimité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how illégitimité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’illégitimité d’un titre. - L’illégitimité d'un dictateur. - L’illégitimité d’un enfant.
L’illégitimité ne peut se concevoir que par rapport à une légitimité approximative.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).