légitime
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,002
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
légitime is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui a les conditions, les qualités requises par la loi. Pronounced \le.ʒi.tim\. It ranks #4,002 in French word frequency. Often confused with légitimer and légitimité.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.tim\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for légitime is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ʒi.tim\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,002 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for légitime, with forms such as "legitime", "lgéitime", and "llégitime". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "légitimer", "légitimité", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is légitime, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui a les conditions, les qualités requises par la loi.
- 2Qualifie un souverain qui règne en vertu d’une dévolution du pouvoir conforme à la loi du pays.
- 3Qualifie un enfant né durant le mariage, ou après la mort du père dans le délai que fixe la loi.
- 4Qualifie l’intérêt de l’argent au taux fixé par la loi.
- 5Qui se justifie, qu’on peut admettre, excuser.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: legitime,lgéitime,llégitime,léggitime,légiitme,légitiem,légitimme,légitmie,légittime,légtiime,léigtime,élgitime
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Misspelling Variants of "légitime"
Frequency rank: #4,002 in French
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