termite
\tɛʁ.mit\
The verdict
“termite” is uncommon French (frequency #99,702 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,702
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant des Isoptères, ordre d’insectes sociaux xylophages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-termite · termite · French
termite · rank #99,702 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,702
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tensiomètre
Nearest frequency peer: tensiomètre (-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 « termite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- telluride
telluride
303 corpus weight
- tendancieus…
tendancieuses
301 corpus weight
- tensiomètre
tensiomètre
300 corpus weight
- termite
termite
299 corpus weight
- Thaon
Thaon
298 corpus weight
- théiste
théiste
297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « termite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | termite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.mit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « termite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
termite is uncommon French at frequency #99,702 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛʁ.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom courant des Isoptères, ordre d’insectes sociaux xylophages.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for termite, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is termite, spelled T-E-R-M-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom courant des Isoptères, ordre d’insectes sociaux xylophages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how termite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les termites parfaits ont le corps et la tête applatis horizontalement ; trois articles à tous les doigts. Leurs antennes, en forme de chapelet, les distinguent assez des autres genres de cet ordre. […] 1. Le termite belliqueux. (Termes fatale.) Est l’espèce la plus grande et la plus commune. […] 2. Le termite atroce. (Termes arda.) Noir, à pieds pâles, e…
Tandis que le sergent Long travaillait comme un termite, le lieutenant Hobson, ayant rejoint sa compagne, lui communiquait le résultat de ses observations […].
Synonyms
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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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