time
The verdict
“time” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,194
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-time · time · French
time · rank #4,194 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,194
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terminée
Nearest frequency peer: terminée (-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 « time »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tabac
tabac
95,810 corpus weight
- tendances
tendances
95,809 corpus weight
- terminée
terminée
95,808 corpus weight
- time
time
95,807 corpus weight
- tissu
tissu
95,806 corpus weight
- trône
trône
95,805 corpus weight
What this shows « time » 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 | time |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « time »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around time, anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,194 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Temps.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for time, with forms such as "itme", "tiem", and "timme". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TM", "tué", "tom", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is time, spelled T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1Temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how time appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itme
- tiem
- timme
- tmie
- ttime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of time - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "time", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (5 here; floor ≥5).