terrarium

\tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\

/\tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « terrarium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for terrarium
PropertyValue
Headwordterrarium
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\
Letters9
Frequency rank#81,631
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « terrarium » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).terrariumtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « testait » (#81,632), « terminèrent » (#81,629), « thermalisme » (#81,633). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « terrarium » est au #81,631. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Emplacement disposé pour des animaux de terre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how terrarium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "terrarium"?
"terrarium" is spelled T-E-R-R-A-R-I-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\.
What does "terrarium" mean?
As a noun, "terrarium" means: Emplacement disposé pour des animaux de terre.
How do you pronounce "terrarium"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "terrarium" is \tɛʁ.ʁa.ʁjɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "terrarium", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list