ledit
\lə.di\
The verdict
“ledit” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,169
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indique la personne ou la chose dont on a parlé, ou que l’on a mentionnée précédemment.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ledit · ledit · French
ledit · rank #16,169 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,169
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libraires
Nearest frequency peer: libraires (+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 « ledit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Joséphine
Joséphine
83,836 corpus weight
- jouaient
jouaient
83,835 corpus weight
- ledit
ledit
83,832 corpus weight
- libraires
libraires
83,831 corpus weight
- locomotive
locomotive
83,829 corpus weight
- Lydia
Lydia
83,828 corpus weight
What this shows « ledit » 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 | ledit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \lə.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ledit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ledit (IPA \lə.di\), adeterminer. Corpus frequency is #16,169 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Indique la personne ou la chose dont on a parlé, ou que l’on a mentionnée précédemment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ledit, with forms such as "eldit", "ldeit", and "leddit". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lit", "lei", "lent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ledit, spelled L-E-D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Indique la personne ou la chose dont on a parlé, ou que l’on a mentionnée précédemment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ledit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Toutes vos marchandises sont à bord ? demandai-je à l’Américain. — Voici la quarante-deuxième caisse qui arrive », me répond-il. Et, en effet, ladite caisse est au dos d’un facteur, engagé déjà sur le pont de l’embarcadère.
Je profite des derniers jours de mon influence pour vous prier de dire à Aubineau que je viens d’écrire à Leclerc que je n’ai pu voir, afin que ledit Leclerc qui est le meilleur garçon du monde et digne d’être un jour néo-catholique avise à dégouiner ledit Aubineau.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eldit
- ldeit
- leddit
- leditt
- ledti
- leidt
- lledit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ledit - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).