legit
\lə.ˈdʒɪt\
The verdict
“legit” is an uncommon French word, ranked #60,921 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #60,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Légitime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | legit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \lə.ˈdʒɪt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “legit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for legit is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lə.ˈdʒɪt\. Corpus data places it at rank #60,921 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Légitime.".
legit doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is legit, spelled L-E-G-I-T.
Definition
- 1Légitime.
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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Using “legit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-E-G-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lə.ˈdʒɪt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.