tend
\tɑ̃\
The verdict
“tend” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,709
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tend · tend · French
tend · rank #5,709 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,709
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taylor
Nearest frequency peer: Taylor (-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 « tend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- substance
substance
94,295 corpus weight
- Taylor
Taylor
94,293 corpus weight
- tend
tend
94,292 corpus weight
- Toulon
Toulon
94,291 corpus weight
- traduire
traduire
94,290 corpus weight
- tunnel
tunnel
94,289 corpus weight
What this shows « tend » 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 | tend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tend (IPA \tɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,709 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de tendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tend, with forms such as "etnd", "tedn", and "tendd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TN", "ton", "tes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tend, spelled T-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de tendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il tend à se « symbiotiser » avec un autre afin de pouvoir se servir des ressources du Moi de ce dernier, comme si elles lui appartenaient et il lui est indispensable que l’autre devine et reconnaisse ses besoins en tant que sujet pour qu’il puisse être correctement assisté, tout en évitant, si possible, les expériences traumatiques.
Gabriel tend l’oreille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnd
- tedn
- tendd
- tennd
- tned
- ttend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tend - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).