thérapeute
\te.ʁa.pøt\
The verdict
“thérapeute” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,297. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,297
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ascète juif qui se livrait à la vie contemplative et mortifiée. Saint Jérôme les considère comme chrétiens. Ce sont les précurseurs du monachisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-therapeute · thérapeute · French
thérapeute · rank #20,297 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,297
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thune
Nearest frequency peer: thune (-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 « thérapeute »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- terminera
terminera
79,707 corpus weight
- theatre
theatre
79,706 corpus weight
- thune
thune
79,705 corpus weight
- thérapeute
thérapeute
79,704 corpus weight
- tisser
tisser
79,703 corpus weight
- titans
titans
79,702 corpus weight
What this shows « thérapeute » 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 | thérapeute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.ʁa.pøt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #20,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thérapeute »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around thérapeute (IPA \te.ʁa.pøt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for thérapeute, with forms such as "htérapeute", "therapeute", and "thhérapeute". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "thérapeutes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is thérapeute, spelled T-H-É-R-A-P-E-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ascète juif qui se livrait à la vie contemplative et mortifiée. Saint Jérôme les considère comme chrétiens. Ce sont les précurseurs du monachisme.
- 2Médecin ou guérisseur.
- 3Psychothérapeute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thérapeute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les thérapeutes ont été les modèles de la vie monastique.
La jeune femme ajoute qu’elle a finalement contacté son thérapeute et écrit un blogue à propos de sa maladie afin de briser l’isolement, un des facteurs de risque des troubles alimentaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htérapeute
- therapeute
- thhérapeute
- thréapeute
- théarpeute
- théraepute
- thérapetue
- thérapeuet
- thérapeutte
- thérappeute
- thérapuete
- thérpaeute
- thérrapeute
- tthérapeute
- téhrapeute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thérapeute - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
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