temps de Planck
\tɑ̃ də plɑ̃k\
The verdict
“temps de Planck” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Temps (théorique) qu'il faudrait à un photon dans le vide pour parcourir une distance égale à la longueur de Planck. Ce temps vaut environ 5.391×10⁻⁴⁴ s.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | temps de Planck |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃ də plɑ̃k\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “temps de Planck” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for temps de Planck is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃ də plɑ̃k\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for temps de Planck in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 temps de Planck, spelled T-E-M-P-S- -D-E- -P-L-A-N-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Temps (théorique) qu'il faudrait à un photon dans le vide pour parcourir une distance égale à la longueur de Planck. Ce temps vaut environ 5.391×10⁻⁴⁴ s.
- 2Plus petite durée pour laquelle les théories scientifiques actuelles ont un sens.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-E-M-P-S- -D-E- -P-L-A-N-C-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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