thermostat
\tɛʁ.mos.ta\
The verdict
“thermostat” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,754
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dispositif dont la fonction est de maintenir la température d’une enceinte, d’une pièce ou d’un appareil dans une plage déterminée, voire à une valeur constante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thermostat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛʁ.mos.ta\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thermostat” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around thermostat (IPA \tɛʁ.mos.ta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,754 among 164,488 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dispositif dont la fonction est de maintenir la température d’une enceinte, d’une pièce ou d’un appareil dans une plage déterminée, voire à une valeur constante.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for thermostat, with forms such as "htermostat", "tehrmostat", and "themrostat". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is thermostat, spelled T-H-E-R-M-O-S-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Dispositif dont la fonction est de maintenir la température d’une enceinte, d’une pièce ou d’un appareil dans une plage déterminée, voire à une valeur constante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htermostat
- tehrmostat
- themrostat
- thermmostat
- thermosatt
- thermosstat
- thermostatt
- thermostta
- thermosttat
- thermotsat
- thermsotat
- theromstat
- therrmostat
- thhermostat
- thremostat
- tthermostat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thermostat - 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.
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Using “thermostat”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-H-E-R-M-O-S-T-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɛʁ.mos.ta\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.