légitimiste
\le.ʒi.ti.mist\
The verdict
“légitimiste” is uncommon French (frequency #56,729 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,729
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au légitimisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-legitimiste · légitimiste · French
légitimiste · rank #56,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,729
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH luxury
Nearest frequency peer: luxury (-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 « légitimiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lundy
lundy
43,275 corpus weight
- luthérien
luthérien
43,274 corpus weight
- luxury
luxury
43,273 corpus weight
- légitimiste
légitimiste
43,272 corpus weight
- Macronie
Macronie
43,271 corpus weight
- macroniste
macroniste
43,270 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « légitimiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitimiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.ti.mist\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « légitimiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
légitimiste is uncommon French at frequency #56,729 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \le.ʒi.ti.mist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au légitimisme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for légitimiste in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is légitimiste, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au légitimisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how légitimiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le parti légitimiste a vu sans effroi, sans répugnance et même avec une certaine joie, la révolution de février; l'établissement de la République lui a sans doute causé de vives préoccupations, par les douloureux souvenirs que cette forme de gouvernement apportait naturellement avec elle ; […].
Cette fin de l'année 1871 ne fut signalée que par la propagande des partis ; un grand nombre des brochures bonapartistes et légitimistes se distribuèrent en province.
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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