légitimant
\le.ʒi.ti.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“légitimant” is uncommon French (frequency #79,499 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,499
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui rend légitime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legitimant · légitimant · French
légitimant · rank #79,499 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,499
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lysine
Nearest frequency peer: lysine (-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 « légitimant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lubrifier
lubrifier
20,506 corpus weight
- lumbago
lumbago
20,505 corpus weight
- lysa
lysa
20,504 corpus weight
- lysine
lysine
20,503 corpus weight
- légitimant
légitimant
20,502 corpus weight
- madeira
madeira
20,500 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « légitimant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitimant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.ti.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,499 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « légitimant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
légitimant is uncommon French at frequency #79,499 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \le.ʒi.ti.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui rend légitime.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for légitimant, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is légitimant, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui rend légitime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how légitimant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Odile Duboc a mis du temps à se faire reconnaître par les instances politiques. Elle n'est pas passée par l’étape légitimante du concours de Bagnolet. En poursuivant son travail dans la rue, elle ne s’est pas non plus rattachée à une institution.
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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