terrestre
\tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\
The verdict
“terrestre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,820
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la planète Terre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-terrestre · terrestre · French
terrestre · rank #5,820 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,820
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terrasse
Nearest frequency peer: terrasse (-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 « terrestre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sympathique
sympathique
94,185 corpus weight
- terrasse
terrasse
94,182 corpus weight
- terrestre
terrestre
94,181 corpus weight
- testé
testé
94,180 corpus weight
- tissus
tissus
94,179 corpus weight
- variations
variations
94,177 corpus weight
What this shows « terrestre » 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 | terrestre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « terrestre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around terrestre (IPA \tɛ.ʁɛstʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,820 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for terrestre, with forms such as "etrrestre", "tererstre", and "terestre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "terrestres", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is terrestre, spelled T-E-R-R-E-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la planète Terre.
- 2Relatif à la terre ferme, par opposition à marin, aquatique, aérien, céleste, etc.
- 3Qui intéresse ce monde, qui est temporel, par opposition à spirituel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how terrestre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le temps utile aux mesures est relatif aux objets : ainsi l'année et le jour jupitériens ne sont pas l'année et le jour terrestres. Les rotations sur soi ou autour du soleil ne sont pas les mêmes, les objets célestes n'ont pas la même vitesse, etc...
La lune apparaît gibbeuse, pour un observateur terrestre, entre le premier quartier et la pleine lune et entre la pleine lune et le dernier quartier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrrestre
- tererstre
- terestre
- terresrte
- terresstre
- terrester
- terrestrre
- terresttre
- terretsre
- terrsetre
- trerestre
- tterrestre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terrestre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "terrestre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).