légitimité
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,628
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
légitimité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est conforme à la loi, à la justice, à la raison, à la tradition ou aux règles établies. Pronounced \le.ʒi.ti.mi.te\. It ranks #6,628 in French word frequency. Often confused with légitime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | légitimité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.ʒi.ti.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for légitimité is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \le.ʒi.ti.mi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,628 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 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for légitimité, with forms such as "legitimite", "lgéitimité", and "llégitimité". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "légitime", 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 légitimité, spelled L-É-G-I-T-I-M-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est conforme à la loi, à la justice, à la raison, à la tradition ou aux règles établies.
- 2État, qualité d’un enfant légitime.
- 3Reconnaissance du droit à exercer le pouvoir.
- 4Reconnaissance du droit à exercer le pouvoir.
- 5Application du droit royal français tel qu'il est défini dans la théorie statutaire et les lois fondamentales du royaume.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: legitimite,lgéitimité,llégitimité,léggitimité,légiitmité,légitiimté,légitimitté,légitimiét,légitimmité,légitimtié,légitmiité,légittimité,légtiimité,léigtimité,élgitimité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for légitimité
Misspelling Variants of "légitimité"
Frequency rank: #6,628 in French
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Nearby French words
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