limitent
\li.mit\
The verdict
“limitent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,668. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,668
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de limiter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limitent · limitent · French
limitent · rank #16,668 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH librairies
Nearest frequency peer: librairies (-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 « limitent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Kadhafi
Kadhafi
83,336 corpus weight
- laisserait
laisserait
83,335 corpus weight
- librairies
librairies
83,334 corpus weight
- limitent
limitent
83,333 corpus weight
- lue
lue
83,332 corpus weight
- Lénine
Lénine
83,331 corpus weight
What this shows « limitent » 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 | limitent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.mit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « limitent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around limitent (IPA \li.mit\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,668 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for limitent, with forms such as "ilmitent", "liimtent", and "limietnt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "limites", "limiter", "limitera", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is limitent, spelled L-I-M-I-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de limiter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de limiter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how limitent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les laïcistes ou les religiophobes, refusent la notion même de « laïcité ouverte ou positive », alors qu’il existe des formes de laïcité radicales ou rigides qui limitent le libre exercice de la religion, notamment dans son expression publique et collective, au nom d’une interprétation restrictive et abusive de la neutralité de l’État et de la séparation…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilmitent
- liimtent
- limietnt
- limitennt
- limitentt
- limitetn
- limitnet
- limittent
- limmitent
- limtient
- llimitent
- lmiitent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of limitent - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).