terminale
\tɛʁ.mi.nal\
The verdict
“terminale” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,085. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,085
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terminale · terminale · French
terminale · rank #9,085 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,085
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teneur
Nearest frequency peer: teneur (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « terminale »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tarder
tarder
90,919 corpus weight
- temporairem…
temporairement
90,918 corpus weight
- teneur
teneur
90,917 corpus weight
- terminale
terminale
90,916 corpus weight
- traditionne…
traditionnellement
90,914 corpus weight
- traitée
traitée
90,913 corpus weight
What this shows « terminale » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terminale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.mi.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terminale »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around terminale (IPA \tɛʁ.mi.nal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,085 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for terminale, with forms such as "etrminale", "temrinale", and "terimnale". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "termine", "terminée", "terminant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is terminale, spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terminale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quels bouffons ! Les garçons de terminale que j’ai connus lors de soirées ne me parlent plus dans l’enceinte du lycée parce que je ne suis qu’une première…
Sami, 19 ans, en terminale, veut devenir éducateur spécialisé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrminale
- temrinale
- terimnale
- termianle
- terminael
- terminalle
- terminlae
- terminnale
- termminale
- termniale
- terrminale
- treminale
- tterminale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terminale - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).