légitimer
\le.ʒi.ti.me\
The verdict
“légitimer” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,930
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre légitime un enfant naturel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legitimer · légitimer · French
légitimer · rank #22,930 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,930
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH législatifs
Nearest frequency peer: législatifs (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “légitimer”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- luck
luck
77,074 corpus weight
- législatifs
législatifs
77,072 corpus weight
- légitimer
légitimer
77,071 corpus weight
- manne
manne
77,070 corpus weight
- manquée
manquée
77,069 corpus weight
- many
many
77,068 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “légitimer” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitimer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.ti.me\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “légitimer” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around légitimer (IPA \le.ʒi.ti.me\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,930 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for légitimer, with forms such as "legitimer", "lgéitimer", and "llégitimer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "légitime", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is légitimer, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre légitime un enfant naturel.
- 2Faire reconnaître pour authentique et juridique.
- 3Justifier, rendre excusable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légitimer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son mariage a légitimé deux enfants qu’il avait eus auparavant.
Ce prince fit légitimer deux de ses enfants naturels.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- legitimer
- lgéitimer
- llégitimer
- léggitimer
- légiitmer
- légitiemr
- légitimerr
- légitimmer
- légitimre
- légitmier
- légittimer
- légtiimer
- léigtimer
- élgitimer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of légitimer - 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 "légitimer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "légitime". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #22,930 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "L" letter cohort. L–Z browse
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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.