tympans
\tɛ̃.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“tympans” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,763
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tympan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tympans · tympans · French
tympans · rank #35,763 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,763
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH truand
Nearest frequency peer: truand (-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 « tympans »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- triton
triton
64,241 corpus weight
- trombone
trombone
64,240 corpus weight
- truand
truand
64,239 corpus weight
- tympans
tympans
64,238 corpus weight
- télépathie
télépathie
64,237 corpus weight
- Uranus
Uranus
64,236 corpus weight
What this shows « tympans » 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 | tympans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tympans »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tympans (IPA \tɛ̃.pɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,763 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tympan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tympans, with forms such as "tmypans", "ttympans", and "tymapns". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tyrans", "tympan", "tampons", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tympans, spelled T-Y-M-P-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tympan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tympans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle hurla. Hurla à envriller les tympans de Torak.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tmypans
- ttympans
- tymapns
- tymmpans
- tympanns
- tympanss
- tympasn
- tympnas
- tymppans
- typmans
- tyympans
- ytmpans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tympans - 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.
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 "tympans", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).