terrarium
\tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“terrarium” is uncommon French (frequency #81,631 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,631
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emplacement disposé pour des animaux de terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrarium · terrarium · French
terrarium · rank #81,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,631
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH testait
Nearest frequency peer: testait (+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 « terrarium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tendancieuse
tendancieuse
18,374 corpus weight
- tenure
tenure
18,373 corpus weight
- terminèrent
terminèrent
18,372 corpus weight
- terrarium
terrarium
18,370 corpus weight
- testait
testait
18,369 corpus weight
- thermalisme
thermalisme
18,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrarium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | terrarium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « terrarium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
terrarium is uncommon French at frequency #81,631 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Emplacement disposé pour des animaux de terre.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for terrarium, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is terrarium, spelled T-E-R-R-A-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Emplacement disposé pour des animaux de terre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terrarium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Gazette de la Bourse annonce… une exposition [russe] dont voici le programme : nᵒ 1 collections d’animaux domestiques… ; nᵒ 11 aquariums et terrariums ; nᵒ 12 animaux de chasse.
Quelle est cette drôle de bête en forme de feuille ou de brindille ? C'est un phasme, complètement invisible, qui avance à tâtons. Amateur de feuilles d'eucalyptus ou de lierre, il est facile à élever en terrarium.
This word in other languages
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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