température de couleur
The verdict
“température de couleur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 22
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Température du corps noir théorique chauffé qui donne la chromaticité la plus proche de la couleur en question, dans l’espace colorimétrique CIE UVW, souvent utilisée pour indiquer la couleur d’un ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | température de couleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ də ku.lœʁ\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “température de couleur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for température de couleur is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ də ku.lœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Température du corps noir théorique chauffé qui donne la chromaticité la plus proche de la couleur en question, dans l’espace colorimétrique CIE UVW, souvent utilisée pour indiquer la couleur d’un ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for température de couleur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 température de couleur, spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-A-T-U-R-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Température du corps noir théorique chauffé qui donne la chromaticité la plus proche de la couleur en question, dans l’espace colorimétrique CIE UVW, souvent utilisée pour indiquer la couleur d’un éclairage.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-E-M-P-É-R-A-T-U-R-E- -D-E- -C-O-U-L-E-U-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɑ̃.pe.ʁa.tyʁ də ku.lœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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