lawn-tennis
\lon.tɛ.nis\
The verdict
“lawn-tennis” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de tennis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lawn-tennis · lawn-tennis · French
lawn-tennis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lawn-tennis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lon.tɛ.nis\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lawn-tennis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lawn-tennis is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \lon.tɛ.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de tennis.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lawn-tennis, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lawn-tennis, spelled L-A-W-N---T-E-N-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de tennis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lawn-tennis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La villa Beauséjour à Fontenay était en fête avant-hier. La comtesse de Montigny avait convié toutes ses amies à l’inauguration de la partie de lawn-tennis qu’elle vient d’installer dans son parc. Parmi les raquettes les plus habiles, citons la princesse de Sagan, la comtesse de Cambières, Mme de Lagarde, Mme Thompson et miss Leardey.
Toutes les classes de la société ont leurs plaisirs : les petits rentiers de province s’adonnent au jeu de boules et au tonneau ; les commis voyageurs, sensibles aux attractions du rams, lui sacrifient les intérêts de leurs patrons ; le lawn-tennis et le polo font les délices du high-life à pied et du high-life à cheval.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.