Which to use
“illimité” and “illimités” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,891
- “illimité” frequency rank
- #26,046
- “illimités” frequency rank
- 36937
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | illimité | illimités |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui n’a pas de limites. | Masculin pluriel de illimité. |
Same sound, different letters: illimité vs illimités
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. illimité runs 8 letters (VCCVCVCV) against illimités's 9 (VCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - illimité and illimités
This is the hard kind. illimité and illimités are pronounced identically (\i.li.mi.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “illimité” sits inside “illimités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36937, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
illimité is recorded at frequency rank #10,891, classified as anadj, pronounced \i.li.mi.te\. illimités is at rank #26,046, tagged as anadj, pronounced \i.li.mi.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 36937, this pair ranks #266,072 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of illimité vs illimités
Shared letters: ilmté. Private to "illimité": -. Private to "illimités": s.
"illimité" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCV · "illimités" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "illimité" and "illimités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "illimité" vs "illimités" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "illimité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "illimités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #266,072 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "illimité" and "illimités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "illimitées vs illimités". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #266,072 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.