beau temps
\bo tɑ̃\
The verdict
“beau temps” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Climat, temps ensoleillé et chaud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beau-temps · beau temps · French
beau temps · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beau temps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bo tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “beau temps” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
beau temps is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \bo tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
beau temps doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is beau temps, spelled B-E-A-U- -T-E-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1Climat, temps ensoleillé et chaud.
- 2Période propice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beau temps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le baromètre est en baisse, mais le ciel s'éclaircit vers le Sud où je pressens le beau temps.
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