tendance

/\tɑ̃.dɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,280

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

tendance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action ou force par laquelle un corps tend à se mouvoir d’un côté. Pronounced \tɑ̃.dɑ̃s\. It ranks #1,280 in French word frequency. Often confused with tendant and tendances.

Key facts for tendance
PropertyValue
Headwordtendance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑ̃.dɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,280
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tendance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tendance is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.dɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,280 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for tendance, with forms such as "etndance", "tednance", and "tenadnce". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tendant", "tendances", "tenace", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tendance, spelled T-E-N-D-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action ou force par laquelle un corps tend à se mouvoir d’un côté.
  2. 2
    Inclination ; penchant.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: etndance,tednance,tenadnce,tendacne,tendancce,tendanec,tendannce,tenddance,tendnace,tenndance,tnedance,ttendance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tendance

Misspelling Variants of "tendance"

etndance8tednance8tenadnce8tendacne8tendancce9tendanec8tendannce9tenddance9
Misspelling Variants of "tendance"

Frequency rank: #1,280 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tendance"?
"tendance" is spelled T-E-N-D-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.dɑ̃s\.
What does "tendance" mean?
As a noun, "tendance" means: Action ou force par laquelle un corps tend à se mouvoir d’un côté.
What words are commonly confused with "tendance"?
"tendance" is commonly confused with "tendant", "tendances", "tenace". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tendance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tendance" is \tɑ̃.dɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tendance" come from?
"tendance" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.