limiter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,468
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
limiter is aFrenchverb. It means: Servir de ligne de démarcation à un terrain ou à un pays. Pronounced \li.mi.te\. It ranks #3,468 in French word frequency. Often confused with lister and limites.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for limiter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.mi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,468 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for limiter, with forms such as "ilmiter", "liimter", and "limietr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "lister", "limites", "limitera", 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 limiter, spelled L-I-M-I-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Servir de ligne de démarcation à un terrain ou à un pays.
- 2Assigner une limite, en parlant du prix et de la quantité des choses, du nombre des personnes, de la durée du temps.
- 3se fixer des limites, se contenter de quelque chose
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilmiter,liimter,limietr,limiterr,limitre,limitter,limmiter,limtier,llimiter,lmiiter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for limiter
Misspelling Variants of "limiter"
Frequency rank: #3,468 in French
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