tempête
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,968
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
tempête is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tourmente atmosphérique, violente agitation de l’air, souvent accompagnée de pluie, de neige, de grêle, d’éclairs, de tonnerre, etc. Pronounced \tɑ̃.pɛt\. It ranks #3,968 in French word frequency. Often confused with temple and trempée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempête |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tempête is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,968 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 generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tempête, with forms such as "etmpête", "temmpête", and "tempete". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "temple", "trempée", "tempêtes", and more, 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 tempête, spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tourmente atmosphérique, violente agitation de l’air, souvent accompagnée de pluie, de neige, de grêle, d’éclairs, de tonnerre, etc.
- 2Tourmentes furieuses sur la mer, qui soulèvent les flots.
- 3Violente agitation, tourmente politique, mouvement dirigé contre quelqu’un pour le perdre, pour l’accabler.
- 4Violente et bruyante explosion.
- 5Période de chaos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etmpête,temmpête,tempete,temppête,temptêe,tempêet,tempêtte,temêpte,tepmête,tmepête,ttempête
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tempête"
Frequency rank: #3,968 in French
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