Which to use
“lésés” is a verb and “limes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #36,943
- “lésés” frequency rank
- #48,011
- “limes” frequency rank
- 84954
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | lésés | limes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin pluriel de léser. | Système de fortifications établi au long de certaines des frontières de l’Empire romain. |
Where the eye mixes lésés and limes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. lésés and limes follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between lésés and limes
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: lésés is \le.ze\ while limes is \li.mɛs\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 84954, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
lésés is recorded at frequency rank #36,943, classified as averb, pronounced \le.ze\. limes is at rank #48,011, tagged as anoun, pronounced \li.mɛs\.
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 84954, this pair ranks #12,120 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of lésés vs limes
Shared letters: ls. Private to "lésés": é. Private to "limes": eim.
"lésés" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "limes" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- limes ← ilmes · liems · limess · limmes · limse · llimes · lmies
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "lésés" and "limes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "lésés" or "limes"?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "lésés" and "limes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "lésés" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "limes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #12,120 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "lésés" and "limes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "liker vs limes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #12,120 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.