trempé

\tʁɑ̃.pe\

/\tʁɑ̃.pe\/ adj

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The verdict

“trempé” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,925
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fortement mouillé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-trempe · trempé · French

trempé · rank #13,925 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,925
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tre

Nearest frequency peer: tre (-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 « trempé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « trempé » 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).

trempé vs trump
67% similar
trempé vs trêve
33% similar
trempé vs trente
50% similar

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

Key facts for trempé
PropertyValue
Headwordtrempé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\tʁɑ̃.pe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,925
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « trempé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).trempése 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 « tre » (#13,924), « tuteur » (#13,926), « travaillaient » (#13,923). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « trempé » est au #13,925. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around trempé (IPA \tʁɑ̃.pe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,925 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for trempé, with forms such as "rtempé", "termpé", and "tremmpé". 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, "trump", "trêve", "trente", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 trempé, spelled T-R-E-M-P-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fortement mouillé.
  2. 2
    Qui a subi la trempe.
  3. 3
    Qui est d’une qualité vigoureuse, en parlant de l’âme humaine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Décidément, un jean, un slack ou un legging trempé dont il n’est pas question de retrousser le bas, c’est très inconfortable.
  2. La couche du bébé est trempée, il faut le changer.

This word in other languages

soaked(English)empapado(Español)klitschnass(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rtempé
  • termpé
  • tremmpé
  • trempe
  • tremppé
  • tremép
  • trepmé
  • trmepé
  • trrempé
  • ttrempé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trempé - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

rtempé2termpé2tremmpé1trempe1tremppé1tremép2trepmé2trmepé2
Edit distance from "trempé"

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 "trempé"?
"trempé" is spelled T-R-E-M-P-É. The IPA pronunciation is \tʁɑ̃.pe\.
What does "trempé" mean?
As an adjective, "trempé" means: Fortement mouillé.
What words are commonly confused with "trempé"?
"trempé" is commonly confused with "trump", "trêve", "trente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "trempé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "trempé" is \tʁɑ̃.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "trempé" come from?
"trempé" 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 "trempé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tuteur#13,926timing#13,922tampon#13,920surfer#13,917

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

unitaire10 variantsspecial10 variantssoudaine10 variantsrêvent10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list