tendaient
\tɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“tendaient” is uncommon French (frequency #67,921 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,921
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendaient · tendaient · French
tendaient · rank #67,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,921
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH teens
Nearest frequency peer: teens (-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 « tendaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tarlouze
tarlouze
32,083 corpus weight
- tatami
tatami
32,082 corpus weight
- teens
teens
32,081 corpus weight
- tendaient
tendaient
32,080 corpus weight
- Thorin
Thorin
32,078 corpus weight
- thugs
thugs
32,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tendaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tendaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tendaient is uncommon French at frequency #67,921 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de tendre.".
tendaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tendaient, spelled T-E-N-D-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de tendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tendaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On est venu nous offrir des bières par le toit ouvrant, alors que les gens qui nous les tendaient ne nous connaissaient pas.
Vittorio et Egidio recueillaient leur dû dans un sac de toile qu’ils tendaient aussi lugubrement qu’un lacrymatoire.
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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