teindre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,778
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
teindre is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire prendre à une étoffe ou à autre chose une couleur différente de celle qu’elle avait, en la plongeant dans un liquide spécial. Pronounced \tɛ̃dʁ\. Often confused with tende and tendre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | teindre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for teindre is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,778 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for teindre, with forms such as "etindre", "teidnre", and "teinddre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "tende", "tendre", "teinte", 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 teindre, spelled T-E-I-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire prendre à une étoffe ou à autre chose une couleur différente de celle qu’elle avait, en la plongeant dans un liquide spécial.
- 2Donner une couleur à ce qui vient en contact avec elles, en parlant des choses.
- 3Teindre une partie de son corps.
- 4Donner à ses cheveux, à sa barbe une couleur artificielle obtenue par la teinture.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etindre,teidnre,teinddre,teinder,teindrre,teinndre,teinrde,tenidre,tiendre,tteindre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for teindre
Misspelling Variants of "teindre"
Frequency rank: #34,778 in French
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