tenancier
\tə.nɑ̃.sje\
The verdict
“tenancier” is uncommon French (frequency #57,639 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,639
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui tenait des terres en tenure, dépendantes d’un fief auquel il était dû des cens ou autres droits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenancier · tenancier · French
tenancier · rank #57,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,639
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tempéraments
Nearest frequency peer: tempéraments (-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 « tenancier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tchin
tchin
42,365 corpus weight
- teacher
teacher
42,364 corpus weight
- tempéraments
tempéraments
42,363 corpus weight
- tenancier
tenancier
42,362 corpus weight
- Thalassa
Thalassa
42,360 corpus weight
- though
though
42,359 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenancier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenancier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.nɑ̃.sje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenancier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenancier is uncommon French at frequency #57,639 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tə.nɑ̃.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
tenancier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tenancier, spelled T-E-N-A-N-C-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui tenait des terres en tenure, dépendantes d’un fief auquel il était dû des cens ou autres droits.
- 2Personne qui tient une métairie dépendant d’une plus grosse ferme.
- 3Personne qui tient, qui gère certains établissements.
- 4Personne qui dirige un établissement soumis à la règlementation ou à la surveillance des pouvoirs publics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenancier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fit assigner les tenanciers pour lui passer déclaration.
Je serais désolé que les excellents tenanciers de cette maison perçussent, à travers les paroles que je vais dire, la moindre attitude agressive ou simplement querelleuse; […].
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).