tempi
\tɛm.pi\
The verdict
“tempi” is uncommon French (frequency #74,420 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,420
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tempo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tempi · tempi · French
tempi · rank #74,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,420
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tartelette
Nearest frequency peer: tartelette (-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 « tempi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ségovie
Ségovie
25,585 corpus weight
- Tarnac
Tarnac
25,583 corpus weight
- tartelette
tartelette
25,582 corpus weight
- tempi
tempi
25,581 corpus weight
- territory
territory
25,579 corpus weight
- testerai
testerai
25,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tempi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛm.pi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tempi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tempi is uncommon French at frequency #74,420 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛm.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tempo.".
tempi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tempi, spelled T-E-M-P-I.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tempo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tempi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Non sans ironie, Boulez a tour à tour tenté de « dégalliciser » Debussy, dont il a profondément renouvelé la vision, et de « déteutoniser » Webern, en accélérant les tempi et en travaillant sur les transitions, la mise en valeur des silences, les finesses d’articulation…
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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