tendez
\tɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“tendez” is uncommon French (frequency #54,950 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,950
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendez · tendez · French
tendez · rank #54,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,950
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Teixeira
Nearest frequency peer: Teixeira (-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 « tendez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tapissé
tapissé
45,054 corpus weight
- teasing
teasing
45,053 corpus weight
- Teixeira
Teixeira
45,052 corpus weight
- tendez
tendez
45,051 corpus weight
- tenions
tenions
45,050 corpus weight
- tenterons
tenterons
45,049 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tendez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tendez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tendez is uncommon French at frequency #54,950 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tendez in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tendez, spelled T-E-N-D-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de tendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de tendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tendez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous tendez trop à vous sous-estimer.
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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