lime
\lim\
The verdict
“lime” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,271
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil de fer ou d’acier, plus ou moins long et étroit, d’une forme plate, ronde ou triangulaire, dont la surface est couverte d’entailles qui se croisent, et qui sert à dégrossir, à couper, à polir...
Corpus desk
Index FR-lime · lime · French
lime · rank #24,271 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,271
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH LFP
Nearest frequency peer: LFP (-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 « lime »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lauréate
lauréate
75,733 corpus weight
- lendemains
lendemains
75,732 corpus weight
- LFP
LFP
75,731 corpus weight
- lime
lime
75,730 corpus weight
- loco
loco
75,729 corpus weight
- lords
lords
75,728 corpus weight
What this shows « lime » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | lime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lim\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « lime »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lime (IPA \lim\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,271 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lime, with forms such as "ilme", "liem", and "limme". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LM", "lit", "lis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lime, spelled L-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Outil de fer ou d’acier, plus ou moins long et étroit, d’une forme plate, ronde ou triangulaire, dont la surface est couverte d’entailles qui se croisent, et qui sert à dégrossir, à couper, à polir des métaux.
- 2Finition, léché, soin mis à polir un ouvrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois jours après, au point du jour, les gendarmes emmenèrent, du fond de la forêt à La-Ville-aux-Fayes, la vieille Tonsard, surprise en flagrant délit par les gardes et le garde champêtre, avec une mauvaise lime qui servait à déchirer l’arbre, et un chasse-clou avec lequel les délinquants lissaient cette hachure annulaire, comme l’insecte lisse son chemin.
Il n’est pas possible, disent ces chimistes, d’entamer un morceau de verre trempé, à l’aide de la scie, du foret ou de la lime, sans que ce verre éclate, à la façon des larmes bataviques.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilme
- liem
- limme
- llime
- lmie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lime - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).