tenailles
\tə.nɑj\
The verdict
“tenailles” is uncommon French (frequency #75,296 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,296
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tenaille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenailles · tenailles · French
tenailles · rank #75,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,296
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH temporalités
Nearest frequency peer: temporalités (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tenailles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teins
teins
24,708 corpus weight
- temporalités
temporalités
24,706 corpus weight
- tenailles
tenailles
24,705 corpus weight
- tenders
tenders
24,704 corpus weight
- terrassant
terrassant
24,703 corpus weight
- tertres
tertres
24,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenailles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenailles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.nɑj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenailles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenailles is uncommon French at frequency #75,296 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tə.nɑj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tenaille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tenailles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tenailles, spelled T-E-N-A-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tenaille.
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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