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tenent

/ˈtɛnɛnt/obsolete

tenent is a noun meaning “A tenet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-N-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tenent is tenents.

What does tenent mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA tenet.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce tenent?

  • /ˈtɛnɛnt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is tenent?

Tenent appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does tenent come from?

From Latin tenent (“they hold”). Compare tenet.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).