tempérament

/\tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,275

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

tempérament is aFrenchnoun. It means: Complexion, constitution du corps, en parlant des personnes, voire des animaux. Pronounced \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.mɑ̃\.

Key facts for tempérament
PropertyValue
Headwordtempérament
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#13,275
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tempérament is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,275 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for tempérament, with forms such as "etmpérament", "temmpérament", and "temperament". 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 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 French form is tempérament, spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-A-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Complexion, constitution du corps, en parlant des personnes, voire des animaux.
  2. 2
    Caractère ; disposition mentale.
  3. 3
    Action de tempérer, adoucissement qu’on propose pour concilier les esprits et pour accommoder les affaires.
  4. 4
    Limitation, atténuation ou assouplissement d’une loi ou d'une norme.
  5. 5
    Altération légère qu’on fait subir aux demi-tons chromatiques et aux demi-tons diatoniques pour les unifier et pour qu’ils puissent être rendus par la même corde, par la même touche d’un instrument.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etmpérament,temmpérament,temperament,temppérament,tempréament,tempéarment,tempéraemnt,tempéramennt,tempéramentt,tempérametn,tempéramment,tempéramnet,tempérmaent,tempérrament,teméprament,tepmérament,tmepérament,ttempérament

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tempérament

Misspelling Variants of "tempérament"

etmpérament11temmpérament12temperament11temppérament12tempréament11tempéarment11tempéraemnt11tempéramennt12
Misspelling Variants of "tempérament"

Frequency rank: #13,275 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tempérament"?
"tempérament" is spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-A-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.mɑ̃\.
What does "tempérament" mean?
As a noun, "tempérament" means: Complexion, constitution du corps, en parlant des personnes, voire des animaux.
What are common misspellings of "tempérament"?
Common misspellings include "etmpérament", "temmpérament", "temperament", "temppérament", "tempréament". The correct spelling is "tempérament".
How do you pronounce "tempérament"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tempérament" is \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tempérament" come from?
"tempérament" 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.