tenace
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,698
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
tenace is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est adhérent ; qui tient fortement à quelque chose. Pronounced \tə.nas\. Often confused with tente and trace.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \tə.nas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tenace is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tə.nas\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,698 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tenace, with forms such as "etnace", "teance", and "tenacce". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "tente", "trace", "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 tenace, spelled T-E-N-A-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est adhérent ; qui tient fortement à quelque chose.
- 2Qualifie les plantes et des parties de plantes qui s’attachent, s’accrochent à ce qui les touche, telles que les tiges et les semences du grateron.
- 3Dont les parties tiennent fortement ensemble, qui peut soutenir une traction, une pression considérable sans s’allonger, sans se rompre.
- 4Dont on ne peut pas se débarrasser ; qui persiste.
- 5Qualifie une personne dont on ne peut se défaire, qu’on ne peut écarter.
- 6Qui est attaché fortement à ses idées, à ses projets, à ses prétentions.
- 7Qui ne donne qu’avec peine ; avare.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnace,teance,tenacce,tenaec,tencae,tennace,tneace,ttenace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tenace"
Frequency rank: #19,698 in French
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