thym
\tɛ̃\
The verdict
“thym” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,217
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes de la famille des Lamiacées dont l’espèce la plus connue est le Thymus vulgaris, plante aromatique et médicinale, qui est utilisée en cuisine et pour la préparation d’infusions et ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-thym · thym · French
thym · rank #32,217 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,217
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH those
Nearest frequency peer: those (-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 « thym »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ternes
ternes
67,787 corpus weight
- testées
testées
67,786 corpus weight
- those
those
67,785 corpus weight
- thym
thym
67,784 corpus weight
- Tilly
Tilly
67,783 corpus weight
- Timberlake
Timberlake
67,782 corpus weight
What this shows « thym » 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 | thym |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « thym »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around thym (IPA \tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,217 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for thym, with forms such as "htym", "thhym", and "thmy". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TM", "ty", "tom", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is thym, spelled T-H-Y-M.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes de la famille des Lamiacées dont l’espèce la plus connue est le Thymus vulgaris, plante aromatique et médicinale, qui est utilisée en cuisine et pour la préparation d’infusions et de décoctions. Sauvage et très répandu dans les garrigues des rives de la méditerranée, il est aussi, pour ses vertus, cultivé dans les jardins.
- 2Inflorescence séchée de l’arbre servant à faire les tisanes.
- 3Boisson, infusion préparée à partir de ces inflorescences.
- 4Nom usuel utilisé avec un épithète pour désigner des plantes, souvent odorantes, autres que du genre Thymus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thym appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, je n’y ai pas trouvé, comme aux jours où tu partageais mon repas, la trace courbe de tes dents, qui rendait à ma bouche la mie aussi douce qu’un baiser, et c’est le cœur serré que je reprends les sentiers parsemés de pierres violettes. Ils sont embaumés de menthe et de thym, et le mistral, venu du nord, commence à souffler sur la vallée.
Les abeilles butinent le thym.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htym
- thhym
- thmy
- thymm
- thyym
- tthym
- tyhm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thym - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).