timor

noun

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The verdict

“timor” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,618. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,618
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crainte, appréhension, effroi, consternation.

Corpus desk

Index FR-timor · timor · French

timor · rank #36,618 · 7 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,618
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH till

Nearest frequency peer: till (-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 « timor »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « timor » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

timor vs tir
60% similar
timor vs Tor
40% similar
timor vs TITO
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for timor
PropertyValue
Headwordtimor
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#36,618
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « timor »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).timorse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « till » (#36,617), « Tobago » (#36,619), « ternir » (#36,616). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « timor » est au #36,618. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around timor, anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,618 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Crainte, appréhension, effroi, consternation.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for timor, with forms such as "itmor", "timmor", and "timorr". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "tir", "Tor", "TITO", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is timor, spelled T-I-M-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Crainte, appréhension, effroi, consternation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how timor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora voltusque moverunt? (Première Catilinaire - Cicéron)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itmor
  • timmor
  • timorr
  • timro
  • tiomr
  • tmior
  • ttimor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of timor - 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.

itmor2timmor1timorr1timro2tiomr2tmior2ttimor1
Edit distance from "timor"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "timor"?
"timor" is spelled T-I-M-O-R.
What does "timor" mean?
As a noun, "timor" means: Crainte, appréhension, effroi, consternation.
What words are commonly confused with "timor"?
"timor" is commonly confused with "tir", "Tor", "TITO". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "timor" come from?
"timor" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "timor", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Tarek#36,611trend#36,625truth#36,626téton#36,632

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Stasi7 variantssonar7 variantsserrait7 variantsscala7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list