tenancière
\tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“tenancière” is uncommon French (frequency #77,983 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,983
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui tient, qui gère certains établissements.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenanciere · tenancière · French
tenancière · rank #77,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,983
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taxent
Nearest frequency peer: taxent (-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 « tenancière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TAAF
TAAF
22,023 corpus weight
- tamarin
tamarin
22,022 corpus weight
- taxent
taxent
22,019 corpus weight
- tenancière
tenancière
22,018 corpus weight
- Thalie
Thalie
22,015 corpus weight
- thermaux
thermaux
22,013 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenancière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenancière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenancière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenancière is uncommon French at frequency #77,983 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui tient, qui gère certains établissements.".
tenancière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tenancière, spelled T-E-N-A-N-C-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui tient, qui gère certains établissements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenancière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tenancière se levait alors, et sur le billard lançait fortement une boule d’ivoire qui courait d’une bande à l’autre, allait, venait, franchissait les trous, et finalement, sa force étant épuisée, tombait dans l’un des godets.
Bientôt il apprit que ce témoin était la tenancière de la maison où vivait Maslova.
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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