tempêtes
\tɑ̃.pɛt\
The verdict
“tempêtes” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,276
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tempête.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tempetes · tempêtes · French
tempêtes · rank #13,276 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,276
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tempérament
Nearest frequency peer: tempérament (-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 « tempêtes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suspens
suspens
86,728 corpus weight
- symptôme
symptôme
86,727 corpus weight
- tempérament
tempérament
86,726 corpus weight
- tempêtes
tempêtes
86,725 corpus weight
- terminent
terminent
86,724 corpus weight
- texture
texture
86,723 corpus weight
What this shows « tempêtes » 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 | tempêtes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tempêtes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tempêtes (IPA \tɑ̃.pɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,276 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tempête.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tempêtes, with forms such as "etmpêtes", "temmpêtes", and "tempetes". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "temples", "tempes", "tempête", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tempêtes, spelled T-E-M-P-Ê-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tempête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tempêtes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma fille, dit l’ermite en la relevant, nous sonnons ordinairement la cloche de la Mission pendant la nuit et pendant les tempêtes, pour appeler les étrangers ; et, à l’exemple de nos frères des Alpes et du Liban, nous avons appris à notre chien à découvrir les voyageurs égarés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etmpêtes
- temmpêtes
- tempetes
- temppêtes
- temptêes
- tempêets
- tempêtess
- tempêtse
- tempêttes
- temêptes
- tepmêtes
- tmepêtes
- ttempêtes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tempêtes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).