Terminus
\tɛʁ.mi.nys\
The verdict
“Terminus” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,891
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village de l’Hérault imaginaire censé se situer aux environs de Montpellier dont est originaire Manon D, héroïne du roman Bubble Gum de Lolita Pille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terminus · Terminus · French
Terminus · rank #18,891 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,891
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH territoriaux
Nearest frequency peer: territoriaux (+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 « Terminus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- talibans
talibans
81,113 corpus weight
- tapent
tapent
81,112 corpus weight
- Terminus
Terminus
81,110 corpus weight
- territoriaux
territoriaux
81,109 corpus weight
- touré
touré
81,108 corpus weight
- trailer
trailer
81,107 corpus weight
What this shows « Terminus » 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 | Terminus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.mi.nys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Terminus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Terminus (IPA \tɛʁ.mi.nys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #18,891 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Village de l’Hérault imaginaire censé se situer aux environs de Montpellier dont est originaire Manon D, héroïne du roman Bubble Gum de Lolita Pille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Terminus, with forms such as "etrminus", "temrinus", and "terimnus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "termites", "termine", "terminer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Terminus, spelled T-E-R-M-I-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Village de l’Hérault imaginaire censé se situer aux environs de Montpellier dont est originaire Manon D, héroïne du roman Bubble Gum de Lolita Pille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Terminus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a exactement neuf mois aujourd’hui, j’ai eu vingt et un ans. Je les ai fêtés avec mon père dans l’arrière-salle du café-tabac de Terminus, Hérault, en buvant du mauvais mousseux dans une flûte en plastique.
Parfois je pensais à Terminus, à mes nuits blanches à la fenêtre, quand je contemplais la place du village, inerte sous l’éclairage jaunâtre, avec la faim qui m’étreignait le ventre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrminus
- temrinus
- terimnus
- terminnus
- terminsu
- terminuss
- termiuns
- termminus
- termnius
- terrminus
- treminus
- tterminus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Terminus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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