limite
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,167
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
limite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Restriction ; point réel fini au-delà duquel on ne doit pas aller. Pronounced \li.mit\. It ranks #1,167 in French word frequency. Often confused with lite and liste.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \li.mit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for limite is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.mit\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,167 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for limite, with forms such as "ilmite", "liimte", and "limiet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lite", "liste", "litige", 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 limite, spelled L-I-M-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Restriction ; point réel fini au-delà duquel on ne doit pas aller.
- 2Ligne de démarcation naturelle ou convenue qui sert à séparer un terrain, un territoire, d’un terrain, d’un territoire contigu ou voisin.
- 3Point qu’une pensée, un sentiment, une action ne peuvent ou ne doivent pas dépasser.
- 4Moment, l’âge au delà duquel on ne peut plus légalement exercer une fonction.
- 5Pour une suite d’un espace topologique, élément de cet espace vers lequel cette suite converge ; autrement dit, élément tel que, pour chaque voisinage de cet élément, il existe un rang à partir duquel tous les termes de la suite appartiennent à ce voisinage.
- 6Valeur dont une fonction est assez proche, en un point ou à l'infini. Elle peut éventuellement être la valeur de la fonction en ce point.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilmite,liimte,limiet,limitte,limmite,limtie,llimite,lmiite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for limite
Misspelling Variants of "limite"
Frequency rank: #1,167 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "limite"?
What does "limite" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "limite"?
How do you pronounce "limite"?
What language does "limite" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our French index: