tandem
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,083
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
tandem is aFrenchnoun. It means: Voiture attelée de deux chevaux en flèche. Pronounced \tɑ̃.dɛm\. Often confused with tante and tardé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tandem |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.dɛm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tandem is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.dɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,083 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tandem, with forms such as "atndem", "tadnem", and "tanddem". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tante", "tardé", "tende", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tandem, spelled T-A-N-D-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Voiture attelée de deux chevaux en flèche.
- 2Bicyclette à deux personnes, placées l’une derrière l’autre.
- 3Association de deux personnes, de deux groupes travaillant à une œuvre commune ; binôme ; duo ; couple.
- 4Ensemble de deux personnes ou groupes indissociables et travaillant de concert ou en antagonisme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atndem,tadnem,tanddem,tandemm,tandme,tanedm,tanndem,tnadem,ttandem
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Misspelling Variants of "tandem"
Frequency rank: #18,083 in French
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