Timothée
\ti.mɔ.te\
The verdict
“Timothée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,398
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-timothee · Timothée · French
Timothée · rank #30,398 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 164,488
- PHOTO-FINISH tibétain
Nearest frequency peer: tibétain (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Timothée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
69,605 corpus weight
- tibétain
tibétain
69,604 corpus weight
- Timothée
Timothée
69,603 corpus weight
- tiraient
tiraient
69,602 corpus weight
- tkt
tkt
69,601 corpus weight
- tondre
tondre
69,600 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Timothée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Timothée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ti.mɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Timothée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Timothée (IPA \ti.mɔ.te\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,398 among 164,488 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Timothée, with forms such as "itmothée", "timmothée", and "timohtée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Timothy", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Timothée, spelled T-I-M-O-T-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
- 2Livre du Nouveau Testament qui contient deux épîtres:
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itmothée
- timmothée
- timohtée
- timothee
- timotheé
- timothhée
- timotthée
- timotéhe
- timtohée
- tiomthée
- tmiothée
- ttimothée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Timothée - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Timothée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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.