lawn-tennis
\lon.tɛ.nis\
The verdict
“lawn-tennis” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de tennis.
| 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) |
Where “lawn-tennis” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lawn-tennis is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \lon.tɛ.nis\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “lawn-tennis”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-A-W-N---T-E-N-N-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \lon.tɛ.nis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.