légitimement
\le.ʒi.tim.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“légitimement” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,184
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière légitime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legitimement · légitimement · French
légitimement · rank #17,184 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,184
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH louper
Nearest frequency peer: louper (-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 « légitimement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lisée
lisée
82,820 corpus weight
- Lituanie
Lituanie
82,819 corpus weight
- louper
louper
82,818 corpus weight
- légitimement
légitimement
82,817 corpus weight
- mandela
mandela
82,816 corpus weight
- Marthe
Marthe
82,814 corpus weight
What this shows « légitimement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitimement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.tim.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #17,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « légitimement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around légitimement (IPA \le.ʒi.tim.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #17,184 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for légitimement, with forms such as "legitimement", "lgéitimement", and "llégitimement". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 légitimement, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière légitime.
- 2À bon droit, avec raison.
- 3D’une façon excusable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légitimement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette somme lui est due légitimement.
Ce n'étaient plus un petit bûcheron et une petite pêcheuse, - mais un Sylphe et une Ondine, lesquels, plus tard, furent unis légitimement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legitimement
- lgéitimement
- llégitimement
- léggitimement
- légiitmement
- légitiemment
- légitimeemnt
- légitimemennt
- légitimementt
- légitimemetn
- légitimemment
- légitimemnet
- légitimmeent
- légitimmement
- légitmiement
- légittimement
- légtiimement
- léigtimement
- élgitimement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légitimement - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "légitimement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).