tenaces
\tə.nas\
The verdict
“tenaces” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,563
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tenace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenaces · tenaces · French
tenaces · rank #38,563 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,563
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tarse
Nearest frequency peer: tarse (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tenaces »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sélestat
Sélestat
61,441 corpus weight
- sémantiques
sémantiques
61,440 corpus weight
- tarse
tarse
61,439 corpus weight
- tenaces
tenaces
61,438 corpus weight
- tenterait
tenterait
61,437 corpus weight
- terroriser
terroriser
61,436 corpus weight
What this shows « tenaces » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenaces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tə.nas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tenaces »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tenaces (IPA \tə.nas\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,563 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de tenace.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenaces, with forms such as "etnaces", "teances", and "tenacces". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "tenues", "tenais", "tentés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tenaces, spelled T-E-N-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tenace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tenaces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour moi qui ai presque toujours habité des bords de rivière, c’est un de mes plus tenaces souvenirs que cette grande odeur d’humus trempé, de verdure rouie, associée à ce grand bruissement de flot hersé par l’averse, clapotant contre mille obstacles, arrachant aux suçons de ses remous des paquets d’écume sale pour les distribuer aux haies de fusain, aux…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnaces
- teances
- tenacces
- tenacess
- tenacse
- tenaecs
- tencaes
- tennaces
- tneaces
- ttenaces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenaces - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).