terni
\tɛʁ.ni\
The verdict
“terni” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,068
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Devenu terne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terni · terni · French
terni · rank #39,068 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,068
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terminaisons
Nearest frequency peer: terminaisons (-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 « terni »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tchadien
tchadien
60,936 corpus weight
- tenteront
tenteront
60,935 corpus weight
- terminaisons
terminaisons
60,934 corpus weight
- terni
terni
60,933 corpus weight
- Theorie
Theorie
60,932 corpus weight
- thermal
thermal
60,931 corpus weight
What this shows « terni » 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 | terni |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terni »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around terni (IPA \tɛʁ.ni\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,068 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for terni, with forms such as "etrni", "terin", and "ternni". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tri", "turn", "Toni", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is terni, spelled T-E-R-N-I.
Definition
- 1Devenu terne.
- 2Dégradé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il passa devant plusieurs cafés ; les vitres étaient ternies par la vapeur des respirations, et il ne put prendre sur lui d’entrer dans aucun, il se figurait une odeur insupportable.
Il tombait de l’or des pommiers féconds où riaient les pommes rouges au temps heureux ; il tombait de l’or des peupliers jaillissants dont les feuilles sont des disques qui tremblent, mais un or terni sans le secours lumineux du soleil.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrni
- terin
- ternni
- terrni
- treni
- tterni
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terni - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).