tempéré

Name: tempéré, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\

/\tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“tempéré” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,050. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,050
frequency rank, French: 3,703
“T” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui n’est ni trop chaud ni trop froid, ce qui ne présente ni excès de chaleur ni excès de froid.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tempere · tempéré · French

tempéré · rank #24,050 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

FREQ-MID #24,050
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-MID 3,703
PHOTO-FINISH sépultures

Nearest frequency peer: sépultures (-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.

surnoms

75,954
séchage

75,953
sépultures

75,952
tempéré

75,951
testée

75,950
Theresa

75,949

What this shows « tempéré » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tempéré vs temple

57% similar

tempéré vs tempes

57% similar

tempéré vs tempête

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tempéré
Property	Value
Headword	tempéré
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#24,050
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	11
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tempéré »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tempérése place ici:

#24,050

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « sépultures » (#24,049), « testée » (#24,051), « séchage » (#24,048). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tempéré » est au #24,050. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tempéré (IPA \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,050 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tempéré, with forms such as "etmpéré", "temmpéré", and "tempere". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "temple", "tempes", "tempête", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tempéré, spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-É.

Definition

1
Ce qui n’est ni trop chaud ni trop froid, ce qui ne présente ni excès de chaleur ni excès de froid.
2
Qualifie chacune des deux zones placées entre la zone torride et une des deux zones glaciales.
3
Qui est modéré, posé, sage.
4
Se dit particulièrement d’un genre intermédiaire entre le genre simple et le genre sublime, admettant plus d’ornements que le premier, moins d’élévation que le second.
5
Se dit de l’accordage d’un instrument où tous les demi-tons ont une valeur égale. Plus généralement pour toute musique utilisant un tempérament égal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tempéré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Air tempéré. Climat tempéré.
Bien qu’elle confine au cercle polaire, l’Islande est située presque entièrement dans la zone tempérée ; on pourrait croire qu’elle jouit d’un climat insulaire et uniforme, grâce surtout à l’influence du Gulf-Stream qui adoucit la température de la Norwége […]

This word in other languages

temperate(English)templado(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

etmpéré
temmpéré
tempere
temppéré
tempréé
tempérré
tempéér
temépré
tepméré
tmepéré
ttempéré

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tempéré - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "tempéré"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tempéré"?

"tempéré" is spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\.

What does "tempéré" mean?

As an adjective, "tempéré" means: Ce qui n’est ni trop chaud ni trop froid, ce qui ne présente ni excès de chaleur ni excès de froid.

What words are commonly confused with "tempéré"?

"tempéré" is commonly confused with "temple", "tempes", "tempête". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "tempéré"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tempéré" is \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "tempéré" come from?

"tempéré" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tempéré", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

séchage#24,048 Theresa#24,052 surnoms#24,047 thermes#24,053

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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