limiter
\li.mi.te\
The verdict
“limiter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,468. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,468
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Servir de ligne de démarcation à un terrain ou à un pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-limiter · limiter · French
limiter · rank #3,468 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,468
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH leçon
Nearest frequency peer: leçon (-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 « limiter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- justifier
justifier
96,536 corpus weight
- kim
kim
96,535 corpus weight
- leçon
leçon
96,534 corpus weight
- limiter
limiter
96,533 corpus weight
- liée
liée
96,532 corpus weight
- mac
mac
96,531 corpus weight
What this shows « limiter » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « limiter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around limiter (IPA \li.mi.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,468 among 2,567 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for limiter, with forms such as "ilmiter", "liimter", and "limietr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "lister", "limites", "limitera", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is limiter, spelled L-I-M-I-T-E-R.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how limiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un rapport et avis d'experts porte qu'il sera planté des bornes, pour limiter les fonds de Catherine Lambert et ceux des pères Jésuites.
Les indications des radiographies du crâne sont limitées aux suspicions d’embarrure et aux plaies profondes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilmiter
- liimter
- limietr
- limiterr
- limitre
- limitter
- limmiter
- limtier
- llimiter
- lmiiter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of limiter - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "limiter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).