Tenuis
German, noun[ˈteːnuɪs]
Tenuis is spelled T-E-N-U-I-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 205,761st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tenuis is a German feminine noun meaning “tenuis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “stimmloser, nicht aspirierter Verschlusslaut; der Begriff begegnet häufig in der Indogermanistik…”.
What does Tenuis mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetenuis
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. stimmloser, nicht aspirierter Verschlusslaut; der Begriff begegnet häufig in der Indogermanistik (Historiolinguistik)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Tenuis
- Tenues plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Tenuis?
- [ˈteːnuɪs]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Tenuis in German?
Tenuis appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).