tempered
"tempered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tempered” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,438
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a specified disposition or temper.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tempered · tempered · English
tempered · rank #14,438 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,438
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH televised
Nearest frequency peer: televised (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “tempered”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tasked
tasked
85,566 corpus weight
- Tasmania
Tasmania
85,565 corpus weight
- televised
televised
85,564 corpus weight
- tempered
tempered
85,563 corpus weight
- tertiary
tertiary
85,562 corpus weight
- thyroid
thyroid
85,561 corpus weight
What this shows “tempered” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | tempered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tempered”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tempered, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,438 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tempered, with forms such as "etmpered", "temepred", and "temmpered". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tempted", "tethered", "temper", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed. The correct English form is tempered, spelled T-E-M-P-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a specified disposition or temper.
- 2Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- 3Pertaining to the industrial process for toughening glass, or to such toughened glass.
- 4Moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- 5Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tempered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
even-tempered
The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.
Etymology
From Middle English tempred, itempered, ytempred, ytemprid, from Old English ġetemprod (“tempered, moderate, goverened, cured”), past participle of Old English ġetemprian (“to temper, moderate, govern, cure”), equivalent to temper + -ed.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etmpered
- temepred
- temmpered
- tempeerd
- temperde
- temperedd
- temperred
- temppered
- tempreed
- tepmered
- tmepered
- ttempered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tempered - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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