temps fort

/\tɑ̃ fɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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temps fort is aFrenchnoun. It means: Temps de la mesure sur lequel le son est plus accentué, plus marqué. Pronounced \tɑ̃ fɔʁ\.

Key facts for temps fort
PropertyValue
Headwordtemps fort
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃ fɔʁ\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

temps fort is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for temps fort is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃ fɔʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for temps fort 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 fort, spelled T-E-M-P-S- -F-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Temps de la mesure sur lequel le son est plus accentué, plus marqué.
  2. 2
    Syllabe tonique prononcée avec plus d’intensité que les autres.
  3. 3
    Moment, évènement important ou intéressant.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "temps fort"?
"temps fort" is spelled T-E-M-P-S- -F-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃ fɔʁ\.
What does "temps fort" mean?
As a noun, "temps fort" means: Temps de la mesure sur lequel le son est plus accentué, plus marqué.
How do you pronounce "temps fort"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "temps fort" is \tɑ̃ fɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "temps fort" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.