légitimation
\le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“légitimation” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,904. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,904
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Changement d’état d’un enfant naturel que ses père et mère reconnaissent, et qui acquiert par là les droits des enfants nés dans le mariage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legitimation · légitimation · French
légitimation · rank #38,904 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,904
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH légistes
Nearest frequency peer: légistes (-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 « légitimation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- longuet
longuet
61,102 corpus weight
- Lothaire
Lothaire
61,101 corpus weight
- louait
louait
61,100 corpus weight
- louvière
louvière
61,099 corpus weight
- légistes
légistes
61,098 corpus weight
- légitimation
légitimation
61,097 corpus weight
What this shows « légitimation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitimation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #38,904 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « légitimation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around légitimation (IPA \le.ʒi.ti.ma.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,904 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for légitimation, with forms such as "legitimation", "lgéitimation", and "llégitimation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 légitimation, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Changement d’état d’un enfant naturel que ses père et mère reconnaissent, et qui acquiert par là les droits des enfants nés dans le mariage.
- 2Action de légitimer, par le mariage entre le père et la mère.
- 3Reconnaissance authentique et juridique des pouvoirs d’un envoyé, d’un mandataire, etc.
- 4Action de prétendre légitime, un fait, une action, qui ne le paraît pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légitimation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Autrefois la légitimation pouvait s’opérer par lettres de chancellerie.
[…] l’acte par lequel un bâtard eſt réputé enfant légitime, & jouit des mêmes privilèges.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legitimation
- lgéitimation
- llégitimation
- léggitimation
- légiitmation
- légitiamtion
- légitimaiton
- légitimatino
- légitimationn
- légitimatoin
- légitimattion
- légitimmation
- légitimtaion
- légitmiation
- légittimation
- légtiimation
- léigtimation
- élgitimation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légitimation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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