tendrait
\tɑ̃.dʁɛ\
The verdict
“tendrait” is uncommon French (frequency #56,312 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,312
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de tendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendrait · tendrait · French
tendrait · rank #56,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,312
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tempérés
Nearest frequency peer: tempérés (-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 « tendrait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- technopole
technopole
43,692 corpus weight
- Templeton
Templeton
43,691 corpus weight
- tempérés
tempérés
43,690 corpus weight
- tendrait
tendrait
43,689 corpus weight
- tentante
tentante
43,688 corpus weight
- tera
tera
43,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tendrait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.dʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tendrait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tendrait is uncommon French at frequency #56,312 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.dʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de tendre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tendrait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tendrait, spelled T-E-N-D-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel de tendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tendrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à l’hypothèse, sous-introduite au moyen âge, qui tendrait à faire de la guerre, à la façon de l’ordalie ou combat judiciaire, une manifestation de la volonté du ciel, il va sans dire que Grotius et ses successeurs la rejettent.
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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