tenancière

\tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\

/\tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenancière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tenancière
PropertyValue
Headwordtenancière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#77,983
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tenancière » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tenancièretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « taxent » (#77,982), « Thalie » (#77,986), « tamarin » (#77,979). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tenancière » est au #77,983. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Personne qui tient, qui gère certains établissements.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tenancière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tenancière"?
"tenancière" is spelled T-E-N-A-N-C-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\.
What does "tenancière" mean?
As a noun, "tenancière" means: Personne qui tient, qui gère certains établissements.
How do you pronounce "tenancière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tenancière" is \tə.nɑ̃.sjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tenancière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list