limbes
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,048
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
limbes is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où étaient, suivant certains théologiens catholiques, les âmes de ceux qui étaient morts dans la grâce de Dieu avant la venue de Jésus-Christ, ou séjour des âmes des enfants morts sans baptême. Pronounced \lɛ̃b\. Often confused with lime and lives.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limbes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛ̃b\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for limbes is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lɛ̃b\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,048 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for limbes, with forms such as "ilmbes", "libmes", and "limbbes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lime", "lives", "lines", and more, 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 limbes, spelled L-I-M-B-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où étaient, suivant certains théologiens catholiques, les âmes de ceux qui étaient morts dans la grâce de Dieu avant la venue de Jésus-Christ, ou séjour des âmes des enfants morts sans baptême.
- 2Endroit, état ou sort incertain, flou.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilmbes,libmes,limbbes,limbess,limbse,limebs,limmbes,llimbes,lmibes
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Misspelling Variants of "limbes"
Frequency rank: #32,048 in French
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