temple
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,045
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
temple is aFrenchnoun. It means: Édifice public consacré au culte de la divinité. Pronounced \tɑ̃pl\. It ranks #3,045 in French word frequency. Often confused with temps and Tempo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | temple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃pl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for temple is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃pl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,045 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for temple, with forms such as "etmple", "temlpe", and "temmple". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "temps", "Tempo", "triple", 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 temple, spelled T-E-M-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Édifice public consacré au culte de la divinité.
- 2Lieu où les protestants s’assemblent pour l’exercice de leur religion.
- 3Édifice que Salomon bâtit à Jérusalem.
- 4Les autorités religieuses juives de l’époque.
- 5Lieu où demeuraient les templiers.
- 6Lieu où les franc-maçons se réunissent.
- 7Lieu de convergence d'une population qui semble vénérer une activité autre que religieuse ou spirituelle à proprement parler.
- 8Meuble représentant un temple antique dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté avec un perron, un toit et plusieurs colonnes dont le nombre pourra faire l’objet d’une mention dans le blasonnement.
- 9Meuble représentant un temple protestant ou réformé dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté sans clocher contrairement aux églises. À rapprocher de chapelle et église.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etmple,temlpe,temmple,tempel,templle,tempple,tepmle,tmeple,ttemple
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "temple"
Frequency rank: #3,045 in French
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Nearby French words
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