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
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thermostat · thermostat · French
thermostat · rank #35,754 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,754
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenante
Nearest frequency peer: tenante (-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 « thermostat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tapas
tapas
64,250 corpus weight
- tenante
tenante
64,248 corpus weight
- thermostat
thermostat
64,247 corpus weight
- tonus
tonus
64,246 corpus weight
- tourmentée
tourmentée
64,245 corpus weight
- translucide
translucide
64,244 corpus weight
What this shows « thermostat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thermostat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around thermostat (IPA \tɛʁ.mos.ta\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,754 among 3,703 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thermostat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un thermostat coupe et remet l’alimentation de manière plus ou moins régulière de façon à conserver une température proche de celle désirée.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).