tempête de neige

/\tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for tempête de neige
PropertyValue
Headwordtempête de neige
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tempête de neige” sits in French frequency

tempête de neige falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Phénomène météorologique produit par une dépression météorologique hivernale importante, qui se caractérise par des chutes de neige importantes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tempête de neige"?
"tempête de neige" is spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E- -D-E- -N-E-I-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\.
What does "tempête de neige" mean?
As a noun, "tempête de neige" means: Phénomène météorologique produit par une dépression météorologique hivernale importante, qui se caractérise par des chutes de neige importantes.
How do you pronounce "tempête de neige"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tempête de neige" is \tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tempête de neige" come from?
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Using “tempête de neige”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • 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.
  • Say it as \tɑ̃.pɛt də nɛʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.