tendait
\tɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“tendait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,093
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendait · tendait · French
tendait · rank #37,093 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tattoo
Nearest frequency peer: tattoo (-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 « tendait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sénile
sénile
62,912 corpus weight
- taro
taro
62,910 corpus weight
- tattoo
tattoo
62,909 corpus weight
- tendait
tendait
62,908 corpus weight
- thinking
thinking
62,906 corpus weight
- timbré
timbré
62,905 corpus weight
What this shows « tendait » 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 | tendait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tendait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tendait (IPA \tɑ̃.dɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,093 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tendait, with forms such as "etndait", "tednait", and "tenadit". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "tentant", "tendent", "tentait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tendait, spelled T-E-N-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de tendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tendait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la troisième période, période de réaction, le pouls se ranimait; la face tendait à se décadavériser; la langue, couverte d’un enduit visqueux, épais, noirâtre au centre, d’une teinte de plus en plus lavée à mesure qu’il s’étendait vers les bords, était arrondie à sa pointe ; la peau se réchauffait; on voyait s’établir une légère diaphorèse; les vomis…
Il se tendait au-dessus d’un Rhône d’huile où sommeillaient paisiblement les bateaux-piscines.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etndait
- tednait
- tenadit
- tendaitt
- tendati
- tenddait
- tendiat
- tenndait
- tnedait
- ttendait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tendait - 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
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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).