tempérer
\tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\
The verdict
“tempérer” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,066
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modérer ou réguler de quelque manière que ce soit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-temperer · tempérer · French
tempérer · rank #38,066 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,066
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tat
Nearest frequency peer: tat (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tempérer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- synchronisée
synchronisée
61,938 corpus weight
- Taipei
Taipei
61,937 corpus weight
- tat
tat
61,936 corpus weight
- tempérer
tempérer
61,935 corpus weight
- teneurs
teneurs
61,934 corpus weight
- tirons
tirons
61,933 corpus weight
What this shows « tempérer » 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tempérer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tempérer (IPA \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,066 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tempérer, with forms such as "etmpérer", "temmpérer", and "temperer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "tempête", "tempêtes", "temporel", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 tempérer, spelled T-E-M-P-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Modérer ou réguler de quelque manière que ce soit.
- 2Atténuer l'intensité d'un excès thermique ou climatique ; réchauffer ou rafraîchir, climatiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tempérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il jugeait une affaire, ce n'était pas lui qui jugeait, c'était la loi ; mais quand elle était trop sévère, il la tempérait.
— Je suis fort sobre de nature et d’habitude, dit Sigognac, et je tempère Bacchus par les nymphes, comme disaient les anciens.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etmpérer
- temmpérer
- temperer
- temppérer
- tempréer
- tempéerr
- tempérerr
- tempérre
- tempérrer
- teméprer
- tepmérer
- tmepérer
- ttempérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tempérer - 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.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tempérer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).