temple

/\tɑ̃pl\/ noun

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.

Key facts for temple
PropertyValue
Headwordtemple
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃pl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,045
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of temple in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Édifice public consacré au culte de la divinité.
  2. 2
    Lieu où les protestants s’assemblent pour l’exercice de leur religion.
  3. 3
    Édifice que Salomon bâtit à Jérusalem.
  4. 4
    Les autorités religieuses juives de l’époque.
  5. 5
    Lieu où demeuraient les templiers.
  6. 6
    Lieu où les franc-maçons se réunissent.
  7. 7
    Lieu de convergence d'une population qui semble vénérer une activité autre que religieuse ou spirituelle à proprement parler.
  8. 8
    Meuble 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.
  9. 9
    Meuble représentant un temple protestant ou réformé dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté sans clocher contrairement aux églises. À rapprocher de chapelle et église.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etmple,temlpe,temmple,tempel,templle,tempple,tepmle,tmeple,ttemple

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for temple

Misspelling Variants of "temple"

etmple6temlpe6temmple7tempel6templle7tempple7tepmle6tmeple6
Misspelling Variants of "temple"

Frequency rank: #3,045 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "temple"?
"temple" is spelled T-E-M-P-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃pl\.
What does "temple" mean?
As a noun, "temple" means: Édifice public consacré au culte de la divinité.
What words are commonly confused with "temple"?
"temple" is commonly confused with "temps", "Tempo", "triple". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "temple"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "temple" is \tɑ̃pl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "temple" come from?
"temple" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.