tympan
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,011
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
tympan is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cavité de forme irrégulière, qui constitue l'oreille moyenne, et qui est fermée du côté de l'oreille externe par une membrane. Pronounced \tɛ̃.pɑ̃\. Often confused with tyran and tympans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tympan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tympan is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ̃.pɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,011 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for tympan, with forms such as "tmypan", "ttympan", and "tymapn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tyran", "tympans", "tampa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tympan, spelled T-Y-M-P-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cavité de forme irrégulière, qui constitue l'oreille moyenne, et qui est fermée du côté de l'oreille externe par une membrane.
- 2Membrane tympanique.
- 3Désigne divers instruments à percussion : tympanon, gong, etc.
- 4Espace qui se trouve encadré par les trois corniches du fronton, par le linteau et l’arc d’une porte (archivolte), par un arc et une ligne droite, etc.
- 5Panneau, orné ou ajouré, situé entre les moulures dans la partie supérieure d'un dormant de porte ou de fenêtre.
- 6Dans la presse à bras, sorte de châssis composé de quatre barres de bois ou de fer, sur lesquelles est tendu un morceau d’étoffe ou un parchemin.
- 7(Hydraulique) Roue hydraulique élévatoire, qui était mue autrefois par des hommes marchant à l’intérieur pour imprimer un mouvement de rotation.
- 8Pignon enté sur son arbre et qui engrène dans les dents d’une roue.
- 9Mur de tête d'un pont servant à maintenir les terres de remblai des voûtes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tmypan,ttympan,tymapn,tymmpan,tympann,tympna,tymppan,typman,tyympan,ytmpan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tympan
Misspelling Variants of "tympan"
Frequency rank: #30,011 in French
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