ternir
\tɛʁ.niʁ\
The verdict
“ternir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,616. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,616
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre terne, ôter ou diminuer l’éclat de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ternir · ternir · French
ternir · rank #36,616 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,616
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tequila
Nearest frequency peer: tequila (-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 « ternir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- technicité
technicité
63,388 corpus weight
- tempérée
tempérée
63,387 corpus weight
- tequila
tequila
63,386 corpus weight
- ternir
ternir
63,385 corpus weight
- till
till
63,384 corpus weight
- timor
timor
63,383 corpus weight
What this shows « ternir » 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 | ternir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ternir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ternir (IPA \tɛʁ.niʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,616 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ternir, with forms such as "etrnir", "tenrir", and "terinr". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "terri", "tiroir", "Turner", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ternir, spelled T-E-R-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre terne, ôter ou diminuer l’éclat de quelque chose.
- 2Dégrader l’image publique, la considération, le crédit, de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ternir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines vapeurs ternissent l’argenterie.
Ces couleurs se ternissent aisément.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrnir
- tenrir
- terinr
- ternirr
- ternnir
- ternri
- terrnir
- trenir
- tternir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ternir - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "ternir"?
What does "ternir" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "ternir"?
How do you pronounce "ternir"?
What language does "ternir" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ternir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).