terné
\tɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“terné” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est au nombre de trois sur un support commun, en parlant des parties d'une plante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terne · terné · French
terné · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terné |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terné » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terné is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est au nombre de trois sur un support commun, en parlant des parties d'une plante.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for terné, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is terné, spelled T-E-R-N-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est au nombre de trois sur un support commun, en parlant des parties d'une plante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sibbaldie, […]. Ce genre , qui est figuré pl. 221 des Illustrations de Lamarck, renferme des herbes à feuilles ternées, à folioles simples, dentées et découpées; à fleurs axillaires et terminales, quelquefois décagynes.
La feuille est dite pennée quand on observe de chaque côté de la nervure moyenne un certain nombre de lobes ou de segments ; […]. La feuille sera ternée, biternée, triternée, lorsqu'elle offrira des lobes ou segments divisés ou subdivisés par trois (Épimédium, Actée).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.