témoignage

/\te.mwa.ɲaʒ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,302

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

témoignage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de témoigner ; rapport d’un ou de plusieurs témoins sur un fait, soit de vive voix, soit par écrit. Pronounced \te.mwa.ɲaʒ\. It ranks #3,302 in French word frequency. Often confused with témoigné and témoignant.

Key facts for témoignage
PropertyValue
Headwordtémoignage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\te.mwa.ɲaʒ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,302
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of témoignage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for témoignage is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.mwa.ɲaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,302 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for témoignage, with forms such as "temoignage", "tméoignage", and "ttémoignage". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "témoigné", "témoignant", "témoignait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 French form is témoignage, spelled T-É-M-O-I-G-N-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de témoigner ; rapport d’un ou de plusieurs témoins sur un fait, soit de vive voix, soit par écrit.
  2. 2
    Action de déclarer, d’avouer ou de reconnaître.
  3. 3
    Preuve ; marque extérieure de quelque chose.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: temoignage,tméoignage,ttémoignage,témiognage,témmoignage,témoginage,témoigange,témoiggnage,témoignaeg,témoignagge,témoigngae,témoignnage,témoingage,téomignage,étmoignage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for témoignage

Misspelling Variants of "témoignage"

temoignage10tméoignage10ttémoignage11témiognage10témmoignage11témoginage10témoigange10témoiggnage11
Misspelling Variants of "témoignage"

Frequency rank: #3,302 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "témoignage"?
"témoignage" is spelled T-É-M-O-I-G-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \te.mwa.ɲaʒ\.
What does "témoignage" mean?
As a noun, "témoignage" means: Action de témoigner ; rapport d’un ou de plusieurs témoins sur un fait, soit de vive voix, soit par écrit.
What words are commonly confused with "témoignage"?
"témoignage" is commonly confused with "témoigné", "témoignant", "témoignait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "témoignage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "témoignage" is \te.mwa.ɲaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "témoignage" come from?
"témoignage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.