tempura
\tɛm.pu.ʁa\
The verdict
“tempura” is uncommon French (frequency #96,437 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,437
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assortiment de beignets à la fois très savoureux et très digeste, populaire au Japon originaire du Portugal, depuis le XVIIᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tempura · tempura · French
tempura · rank #96,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,437
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tees
Nearest frequency peer: tees (-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 « tempura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tantouze
tantouze
3,567 corpus weight
- taulards
taulards
3,566 corpus weight
- tees
tees
3,565 corpus weight
- tempura
tempura
3,564 corpus weight
- terminais
terminais
3,563 corpus weight
- territorial…
territorialisation
3,562 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tempura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tempura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛm.pu.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tempura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tempura is uncommon French at frequency #96,437 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛm.pu.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Assortiment de beignets à la fois très savoureux et très digeste, populaire au Japon originaire du Portugal, depuis le XVIIᵉ siècle.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tempura in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tempura, spelled T-E-M-P-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Assortiment de beignets à la fois très savoureux et très digeste, populaire au Japon originaire du Portugal, depuis le XVIIᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tempura appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En face de moi, sur le comptoir, trône un petit bol rempli de tentsuyu : une sauce traditionnelle, dans laquelle on trempe les tempura et composée ici de bouillon dashi, de mirin, de sauce soja et de daïkon (le radis blanc japonais) que l’on ajoute à discrétion. En guise de bienvenue, le chef m’offre un premier tempura : une tête de crevette.
La prochaine fois, on pourra aussi essayer les tempuras, ce sont des beignets.
This word in other languages
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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