ténacité
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,725
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
ténacité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Caractère de ce qui est tenace, de ce qui tient fortement. Pronounced \te.na.si.te\. Often confused with tenait and tenante.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ténacité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.na.si.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ténacité is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.na.si.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,725 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for ténacité, with forms such as "tenacite", "tnéacité", and "tténacité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tenait", "tenante", "tonalité", 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 ténacité, spelled T-É-N-A-C-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est tenace, de ce qui tient fortement.
- 2Propriété qu’ont certains corps de soutenir une traction, une pression considérable sans s’allonger, sans se rompre.
- 3Capacité d'un matériau à encaisser l'énergie d'un choc, d'une contrainte, en résistant à la fissuration.(L'inverse se nomme douceur ou faiblesse.)
- 4Attachement invariable à une idée, à un projet, etc.
- 5Faculté de retenir toujours ou longtemps ce qu’elle a appris, en parlant de la mémoire.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tenacite,tnéacité,tténacité,téancité,ténaccité,ténacitté,ténaciét,ténactié,ténaicté,téncaité,ténnacité,étnacité
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Misspelling Variants of "ténacité"
Frequency rank: #22,725 in French
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Nearby French words
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