tenable
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,038
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
tenable is anFrenchadj. It means: Se dit d'un lieu, d’un poste, d’une place où l’on peut se défendre, où l’on peut demeurer sans un trop grand péril. Pronounced \tə.nabl\. Often confused with tenace and tenante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \tə.nabl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tenable is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tə.nabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,038 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 tenable, with forms such as "etnable", "teanble", and "tenabble". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tenace", "tenante", "tenaille", 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 tenable, spelled T-E-N-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit d'un lieu, d’un poste, d’une place où l’on peut se défendre, où l’on peut demeurer sans un trop grand péril.
- 2Se dit d’un lieu, d’un endroit où l’on ne peut demeurer commodément.
- 3Se dit d’une fonction que l’on quitte parce qu’on y éprouve des désagréments, parce qu’on y trouve de grandes difficultés.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnable,teanble,tenabble,tenabel,tenablle,tenalbe,tenbale,tennable,tneable,ttenable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tenable
Misspelling Variants of "tenable"
Frequency rank: #41,038 in French
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