ultimes
\yl.tim\
The verdict
“ultimes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,910. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,910
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ultime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ultimes · ultimes · French
ultimes · rank #26,910 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,910
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH typhon
Nearest frequency peer: typhon (-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 « ultimes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- troisièmes
troisièmes
73,094 corpus weight
- Twingo
Twingo
73,093 corpus weight
- typhon
typhon
73,092 corpus weight
- ultimes
ultimes
73,091 corpus weight
- unity
unity
73,090 corpus weight
- universels
universels
73,089 corpus weight
What this shows « ultimes » 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 | ultimes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \yl.tim\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ultimes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ultimes (IPA \yl.tim\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,910 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de ultime.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ultimes, with forms such as "lutimes", "ulitmes", and "ulltimes". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "utiles", "ultime", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ultimes, spelled U-L-T-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ultime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ultimes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’ai pas l’intention, dans cette préface, de faire un cours sur Nietzsche, mais de rappeler avant tout que l’auteur du Gai Savoir nous invite à nous « vernatürlichen », à nous « renaturiser », à retrouver nos racines, nos pulsions et énergies viscérales, pour mieux nous porter vers nos potentialités ultimes, enthousiasmantes, voire même « démentielles ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lutimes
- ulitmes
- ulltimes
- ultiems
- ultimess
- ultimmes
- ultimse
- ultmies
- ulttimes
- utlimes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ultimes - 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 "ultimes", 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).