tempos
\tɛm.pɔ\
The verdict
“tempos” is uncommon French (frequency #77,079 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,079
- 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-tempos · tempos · French
tempos · rank #77,079 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,079
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tatare
Nearest frequency peer: tatare (-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 « tempos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Talmont
Talmont
22,925 corpus weight
- tarentule
tarentule
22,924 corpus weight
- tatare
tatare
22,923 corpus weight
- tempos
tempos
22,922 corpus weight
- Tenzin
Tenzin
22,921 corpus weight
- terrasson
terrasson
22,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tempos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛm.pɔ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tempos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tempos is uncommon French at frequency #77,079 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛm.pɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tempo.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tempos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tempos, spelled T-E-M-P-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tempo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tempos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette musique vivace et tendre supporterait aussi bien les coupures et les tempos des rythmes modernes que la langueur d'un piano solitaire.
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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