template
/ˈtɛm.plɪt/noun, verb
template is spelled T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is tempalte: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 192 of all searches for the word. Template is a noun meaning “A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects”. The plural of template is templates.
How many letters and syllables are in template?
| Letters | 8: T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, tempalte, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell template?
Template is spelled T-E-M-P-L-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 194 of the searches for template 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 template?
Template appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 template?
- /ˈtɛm.plɪt/
- /ˈtɛm.plət/
- /ˈtɛm(ˌ)pleɪt/
Template has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-template.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-template.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with template?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as template.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: palmette.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of template
- templates plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- templating participle, present
- templated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does template mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
- 2
A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
- 3
A file or document serving as a basis for others.
- 4
A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
- 5
A partially defined class or function, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.
- 6
A strip of metal used in boiler-making, pierced with a series of holes, and serving as a guide in marking out a line of rivet-holes.
- 7
Synonym of temple.
verb
- 1
To set up or mark off using a template.
- 2
To provide a template or pattern for.
- 3
To synthesize by means of a template.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Template in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gabarit, calibre, patron, réglette, modèle |
| German | Vorlage, Schablone |
| Portuguese | modelo, predefinição, molde, gabarito , template |
| Spanish | plantilla , patrón , plantillas , molécula patrón, moléculas patrón |
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 template come from?
Alteration of templet, probably from French templet, diminutive of temple (“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latin tempora (“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroese tamba (“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandic þamb (“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).