temperature
tem·pe·ra·ture/ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/noun
temperature is spelled T-E-M-P-E-R-A-T-U-R-E, 4 syllables: tem·pe·ra·ture. The wrong spelling people search most is temperture: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 64 of all searches for the word. Temperature is a noun meaning “A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer”. The plural of temperature is temperatures.
How many letters and syllables are in temperature?
| Letters | 11: T-E-M-P-E-R-A-T-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: tem·pe·ra·ture |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, temperture, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell temperature?
Temperature is spelled T-E-M-P-E-R-A-T-U-R-E. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 39 of the searches for temperature in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is temperature?
Temperature appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce temperature?
- UK /ˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.t͡ʃə/
- UK [ˈtʰɛm.pʰə.ɹət͡ʃə]
- UK [ˈtʰɛm.pʰɹə.t͡ʃə]
Temperature has 4 syllables, split tem·pe·ra·ture in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-temperature.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of temperature
- temperatures plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does temperature mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
- 2
An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.
You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
- 3
A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents.
- 4
A parameter that controls the degree of randomness of the output.
- 5
colloquialThe general mood.
- 6
obsoleteThe state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
- 7
archaicThe balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate temperature?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of temperature: CTD, PVT, TPR, temp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Temperature in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | température , fièvre |
| German | Temperatur , erhöhte Temperatur, Fieber |
| Portuguese | temperatura , febre |
| Spanish | temperatura, temple , fiebre |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does temperature come from?
Borrowed from Latin temperātūra (cf. also French température), from the past participle stem of tempero (“to temper”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).