illimité

\i.li.mi.te\

/\i.li.mi.te\/ adj

The verdict

“illimité” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,891
frequency rank, French
3,561
“I” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’a pas de limites.

Corpus desk

Index FR-illimite · illimité · French

illimité · rank #10,891 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,891
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,561
  • PHOTO-FINISH ignorent

Nearest frequency peer: ignorent (-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 « illimité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « illimité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

illimité vs intimité
75% similar
illimité vs illuminé
75% similar
illimité vs illimitée
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for illimité
PropertyValue
Headwordillimité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\i.li.mi.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,891
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « illimité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).illimitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ignorent » (#10,890), « illusions » (#10,892), « identifiés » (#10,889). Parmi 3,561 lemmes en « I », « illimité » est au #10,891. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around illimité (IPA \i.li.mi.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,891 among 3,561 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for illimité, with forms such as "ililmité", "ilimité", and "illiimté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "intimité", "illuminé", "illimitée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is illimité, spelled I-L-L-I-M-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui n’a pas de limites.
  2. 2
    Dont le terme n’est pas fixé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how illimité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Leur pouvoir était illimité ; ils guérissaient les malades abandonnés des médecins, rendaient fécondes les terres stériles, arrêtaient les épidémies de bestiaux, mais ils n’étaient point toujours d’humeur à ces sorcelleries bienfaisantes, et, plus volontiers, ils se servaient de leur puissance magique pour tourmenter les hommes et les bêtes.
  2. Espace illimité.

Synonyms

Antonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ililmité
  • ilimité
  • illiimté
  • illimite
  • illimitté
  • illimiét
  • illimmité
  • illimtié
  • illmiité
  • lilimité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of illimité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ililmité2ilimité1illiimté2illimite1illimitté1illimiét2illimmité1illimtié2
Edit distance from "illimité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "illimité"?
"illimité" is spelled I-L-L-I-M-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \i.li.mi.te\.
What does "illimité" mean?
As an adjective, "illimité" means: Qui n’a pas de limites.
What words are commonly confused with "illimité"?
"illimité" is commonly confused with "intimité", "illuminé", "illimitée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "illimité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "illimité" is \i.li.mi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "illimité" come from?
"illimité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "illimité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list