limes
\li.mɛs\
The verdict
“limes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,011
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de fortifications établi au long de certaines des frontières de l’Empire romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limes · limes · French
limes · rank #48,011 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,011
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH limitera
Nearest frequency peer: limitera (+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 « limes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lessing
Lessing
51,993 corpus weight
- levais
levais
51,992 corpus weight
- limes
limes
51,990 corpus weight
- limitera
limitera
51,989 corpus weight
- linges
linges
51,988 corpus weight
- Littré
Littré
51,986 corpus weight
What this shows « limes » 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 | limes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.mɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « limes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around limes (IPA \li.mɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,011 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Système de fortifications établi au long de certaines des frontières de l’Empire romain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for limes, with forms such as "ilmes", "liems", and "limess". 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, "lis", "lire", "live", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is limes, spelled L-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Système de fortifications établi au long de certaines des frontières de l’Empire romain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how limes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mur d’Hadrien, au nord de l’actuelle Angleterre est un limes.
La France, comme l’Empire romain qui avait construit un limes pour se protéger des incursions barbares, pensait vivre et s’épanouir en toute tranquillité à l’abri de la ligne Maginot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilmes
- liems
- limess
- limmes
- limse
- llimes
- lmies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of limes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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