tempest
\ˈtɛm.pɪst\
The verdict
“tempest” is uncommon French (frequency #84,368 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,368
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orage, tempête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tempest · tempest · French
tempest · rank #84,368 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teuton
Nearest frequency peer: teuton (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tempest »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tarées
tarées
15,636 corpus weight
- tchadiennes
tchadiennes
15,635 corpus weight
- tempest
tempest
15,633 corpus weight
- teuton
teuton
15,632 corpus weight
- thalassothé…
thalassothérapie
15,631 corpus weight
- Thames
Thames
15,630 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tempest » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempest |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtɛm.pɪst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tempest » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tempest is uncommon French at frequency #84,368 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtɛm.pɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orage, tempête.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tempest, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tempest, spelled T-E-M-P-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1Orage, tempête.
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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