tendis
\tɑ̃.di\
The verdict
“tendis” is uncommon French (frequency #91,224 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,224
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendis · tendis · French
tendis · rank #91,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,224
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH telescope
Nearest frequency peer: telescope (-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 « tendis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tallien
tallien
8,781 corpus weight
- teh
teh
8,779 corpus weight
- telescope
telescope
8,778 corpus weight
- tendis
tendis
8,777 corpus weight
- tentaculair…
tentaculaires
8,776 corpus weight
- ternissent
ternissent
8,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tendis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tendis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tendis is uncommon French at frequency #91,224 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tendis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tendis, spelled T-E-N-D-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de tendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de tendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tendis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette parole, dite spontanément et avec candeur, me fit comprendre que tout était vrai dans le récit de Mongenod ; je lui tendis alors la main, et nous nous embrassâmes de nouveau.
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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