tenante
\tə.nɑ̃t\
The verdict
“tenante” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,753
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui, dans un tournoi, entreprend de tenir le champ contre toutes sortes d’assaillants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenante · tenante · French
tenante · rank #35,753 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,753
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thermostat
Nearest frequency peer: thermostat (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tenante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tanya
Tanya
64,251 corpus weight
- tapas
tapas
64,250 corpus weight
- tenante
tenante
64,248 corpus weight
- thermostat
thermostat
64,247 corpus weight
- tonus
tonus
64,246 corpus weight
- tourmentée
tourmentée
64,245 corpus weight
What this shows « tenante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.nɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tenante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tenante (IPA \tə.nɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,753 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenante, with forms such as "etnante", "teannte", and "tenanet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tente", "tentant", "tenants", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tenante, spelled T-E-N-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui, dans un tournoi, entreprend de tenir le champ contre toutes sortes d’assaillants.
- 2Celle qui détient un titre remis régulièrement en jeu.
- 3Celle qui exploite un fonds tenu par un autre.
- 4Celle qui défend une personne ou soutient une opinion dans un débat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tenante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De jeudi à samedi, 108 participantes tenteront de remporter la 32ᵉ édition de l’épreuve, dont la tenante du titre, Céline Boutier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnante
- teannte
- tenanet
- tenannte
- tenantte
- tenatne
- tennante
- tennate
- tneante
- ttenante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenante - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tenante", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).