Which to use
“tempéré” and “tempérée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,050
- “tempéré” frequency rank
- #36,614
- “tempérée” frequency rank
- 60664
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | tempéré | tempérée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ce qui n’est ni trop chaud ni trop froid, ce qui ne présente ni excès de chaleur ni excès de froid. | Féminin singulier de tempéré. |
Same sound, different letters: tempéré vs tempérée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. tempéré runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against tempérée's 8 (CVCCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - tempéré / tempérée
This is the hard kind. tempéré and tempérée are pronounced identically (\tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “tempéré” sits inside “tempérée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 60664, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
tempéré is recorded at frequency rank #24,050, classified as anadj, pronounced \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\. tempérée is at rank #36,614, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tɑ̃.pe.ʁe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 60664, this pair ranks #96,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of tempéré vs tempérée
Shared letters: emprté. Private to "tempéré": -. Private to "tempérée": -.
"tempéré" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "tempérée" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "tempéré" and "tempérée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "tempéré" or "tempérée"?
Useful next steps
"tempéré" and "tempérée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "tempéré" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tempérée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #96,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "tempéré" and "tempérée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tempérée vs tempérées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #96,444 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.