tempe
French, noun
tempe is a French feminine noun meaning “temple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tempé is a different word: “alternative form of tempeh”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Partie latérale de la tête entre l’oreille et le front”.
What does tempe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetemple
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of tempeh
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Partie latérale de la tête entre l’oreille et le front.
noun: 1. Produit alimentaire à base de soja fermenté, originaire d’Indonésie.
noun: 1. Température.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tempe
- tempes plural
- temple alternative
- tempeh
- tempés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tempe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tempe in French?
tempe appears 1.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).