terminale

/\tɛʁ.mi.nal\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,085

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

terminale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans. Pronounced \tɛʁ.mi.nal\. It ranks #9,085 in French word frequency. Often confused with termine and terminée.

Key facts for terminale
PropertyValue
Headwordterminale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɛʁ.mi.nal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#9,085
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of terminale in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for terminale is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛʁ.mi.nal\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,085 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for terminale, with forms such as "etrminale", "temrinale", and "terimnale". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "termine", "terminée", "terminant", 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 terminale, spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etrminale,temrinale,terimnale,termianle,terminael,terminalle,terminlae,terminnale,termminale,termniale,terrminale,treminale,tterminale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for terminale

Misspelling Variants of "terminale"

etrminale9temrinale9terimnale9termianle9terminael9terminalle10terminlae9terminnale10
Misspelling Variants of "terminale"

Frequency rank: #9,085 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "terminale"?
"terminale" is spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɛʁ.mi.nal\.
What does "terminale" mean?
As a noun, "terminale" means: Dernière classe du lycée, après la première, pour les enfants de 17-18 ans.
What words are commonly confused with "terminale"?
"terminale" is commonly confused with "termine", "terminée", "terminant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "terminale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "terminale" is \tɛʁ.mi.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "terminale" come from?
"terminale" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.