terme
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#535
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
terme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Borne marquant une limite et faite d’un buste terminé en gaine, en souvenir du dieu Terme. Pronounced \tɛʁm\. It ranks #535 in French word frequency. Often confused with tre and tête.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for terme is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #535 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for terme, with forms such as "etrme", "temre", and "terem". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tre", "tête", "tiré", 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 terme, spelled T-E-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Borne marquant une limite et faite d’un buste terminé en gaine, en souvenir du dieu Terme.
- 2Fin d’un espace à parcourir.
- 3Fin d’une période de temps.
- 4Borne ; limite où s’arrête quelque chose.
- 5Moment fixé d’avance pour un paiement.
- 6Somme due au bout du terme.
- 7Temps au bout duquel une femme doit accoucher, dans le cours ordinaire de la nature.
- 8Date prévue de la mise à bas, en parlant des femelles de quelques animaux, des vaches, des juments, etc.
- 9État, nature des relations qu’on entretient avec quelqu’un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etrme,temre,terem,termme,terrme,treme,tterme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terme
Misspelling Variants of "terme"
Frequency rank: #535 in French
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Nearby French words
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