température

/\tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,059

in French word usage

Misspellings

17

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

température is aFrenchnoun. It means: Degré de chaleur ou de froideur d’un corps ou d’un environnement. Pronounced \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ\. It ranks #2,059 in French word frequency. Often confused with températures.

Key facts for température
PropertyValue
Headwordtempérature
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#2,059
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for température is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,059 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for température, with forms such as "etmpérature", "temmpérature", and "temperature". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "températures", 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 température, spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-A-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Degré de chaleur ou de froideur d’un corps ou d’un environnement.
  2. 2
    Degré de chaleur de l’atmosphère.
  3. 3
    Fièvre, trop grande chaleur du corps humain.
  4. 4
    Évaluation d’un niveau, d’une ambiance.
  5. 5
    Hyperparamètre qui contrôle le caractère aléatoire d’une sortie.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etmpérature,temmpérature,temperature,temppérature,tempréature,tempéarture,températrue,températture,températuer,températurre,tempérautre,tempérrature,tempértaure,teméprature,tepmérature,tmepérature,ttempérature

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for température

Misspelling Variants of "température"

etmpérature11temmpérature12temperature11temppérature12tempréature11tempéarture11températrue11températture12
Misspelling Variants of "température"

Frequency rank: #2,059 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "température"?
"température" is spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-A-T-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ\.
What does "température" mean?
As a noun, "température" means: Degré de chaleur ou de froideur d’un corps ou d’un environnement.
What words are commonly confused with "température"?
"température" is commonly confused with "températures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "température"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "température" is \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "température" come from?
"température" 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.