tem
\tɐ̃j\
The verdict
“tem” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,481) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,481
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tem · tem · French
tem · rank #46,481 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,481
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH technicolor
Nearest frequency peer: technicolor (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tem »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tarit
tarit
53,523 corpus weight
- tchao
tchao
53,522 corpus weight
- technicolor
technicolor
53,521 corpus weight
- tem
tem
53,520 corpus weight
- tempes
tempes
53,519 corpus weight
- temporal
temporal
53,518 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tem » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɐ̃j\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tem »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tem is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \tɐ̃j\. Frequency #46,481 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for tem in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tem, spelled T-E-M.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de ter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’impératif affirmatif de ter.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de ter.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).