tendon
\tɑ̃.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“tendon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,892
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie fibreuse, blanchâtre, ronde ou aplatie, qui forme l’extrémité des muscles et qui sert à les attacher aux os ou à d’autres parties.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendon · tendon · French
tendon · rank #26,892 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,892
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH temp
Nearest frequency peer: temp (-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 « tendon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tardives
tardives
73,113 corpus weight
- tarzan
tarzan
73,112 corpus weight
- temp
temp
73,110 corpus weight
- tendon
tendon
73,109 corpus weight
- thermodynam…
thermodynamique
73,107 corpus weight
- thyroïde
thyroïde
73,106 corpus weight
What this shows « tendon » 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 | tendon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tendon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tendon (IPA \tɑ̃.dɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,892 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tendon, with forms such as "etndon", "tednon", and "tenddon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "tendu", "ténor", "tends", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tendon, spelled T-E-N-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie fibreuse, blanchâtre, ronde ou aplatie, qui forme l’extrémité des muscles et qui sert à les attacher aux os ou à d’autres parties.
- 2Partie postérieure des jambes des chevaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tendon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Schwartz diagnostique une rupture incomplète du tendon extenseur au niveau de son insertion sur la phalangette.
Avec son menton saillant et les tendons de son cou décharné, qui tirent sa peau, comme les cordes tirent les toiles d’une tente, elle ressemble aux sorcières qui jettent des sorts.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etndon
- tednon
- tenddon
- tendno
- tendonn
- tenndon
- tenodn
- tnedon
- ttendon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tendon - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).