tempête de neige
The verdict
“tempête de neige” 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
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Phénomène météorologique produit par une dépression météorologique hivernale importante, qui se caractérise par des chutes de neige importantes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempête de neige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tempête de neige” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tempête de neige is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\. 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: "Phénomène météorologique produit par une dépression météorologique hivernale importante, qui se caractérise par des chutes de neige importantes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tempête de neige 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 tempête de neige, spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Phénomène météorologique produit par une dépression météorologique hivernale importante, qui se caractérise par des chutes de neige importantes.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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