ultime
\yl.tim\
The verdict
“ultime” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,535
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dernier, final, le plus éloigné possible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ultime · ultime · French
ultime · rank #4,535 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,535
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH trouvera
Nearest frequency peer: trouvera (-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 « ultime »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Toronto
Toronto
95,469 corpus weight
- trajet
trajet
95,468 corpus weight
- trouvera
trouvera
95,467 corpus weight
- ultime
ultime
95,466 corpus weight
- veste
veste
95,465 corpus weight
- viendra
viendra
95,464 corpus weight
What this shows « ultime » 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 | ultime |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \yl.tim\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ultime »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ultime (IPA \yl.tim\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,535 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dernier, final, le plus éloigné possible.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ultime, with forms such as "lutime", "ulitme", and "ulltime". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "utile", "ultimes", "ultimate", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ultime, spelled U-L-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Dernier, final, le plus éloigné possible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ultime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux minutes après, […], il attendait dans une posture recueillie et digne les ultimes recommandations paternelles.
À vrai dire, elle avait tourné quelques autres films à Hollywood après avoir participé aux ultimes tentatives avortées de Castle, mais c'étaient des nanars de série B. Pour elle, ces fragments étaient son dernier travail « sérieux ».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lutime
- ulitme
- ulltime
- ultiem
- ultimme
- ultmie
- ulttime
- utlime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ultime - 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 "ultime", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).