termidor

/[t̪eɾmiˈð̞oɾ]/ noun

The verdict

“termidor” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #86,298 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.

#86,298
frequency rank, Spanish
8
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Undécimo mes del año de la República Francesa, que tiene treinta dias como los otros once, y comienza el 19 de Julio, y acaba el 17 de Agosto. También se compone casi enteramente de los días canicu...

Key facts for termidor
PropertyValue
Headwordtermidor
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[t̪eɾmiˈð̞oɾ]
Letters8
Frequency rank#86,298
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “termidor” sits in Spanish frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). termidor lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for termidor is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪eɾmiˈð̞oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #86,298 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Undécimo mes del año de la República Francesa, que tiene treinta dias como los otros once, y comienza el 19 de Julio, y acaba el 17 de Agosto. También se compone casi enteramente de los días canicu...".

No misspelling variants are generated for termidor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is termidor, spelled T-E-R-M-I-D-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Undécimo mes del año de la República Francesa, que tiene treinta dias como los otros once, y comienza el 19 de Julio, y acaba el 17 de Agosto. También se compone casi enteramente de los días caniculares, que se comprehenden desde el 24 de Julio hasta el 24 de Agosto.

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "termidor"?
"termidor" is spelled T-E-R-M-I-D-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [t̪eɾmiˈð̞oɾ].
What does "termidor" mean?
As a noun, "termidor" means: Undécimo mes del año de la República Francesa, que tiene treinta dias como los otros once, y comienza el 19 de Julio, y acaba el 17 de Agosto. También se compone casi enteramente de los días canicu...
How do you pronounce "termidor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "termidor" is [t̪eɾmiˈð̞oɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "termidor" come from?
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Using “termidor”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Spanish spelling is T-E-R-M-I-D-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [t̪eɾmiˈð̞oɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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