tendre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,999
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tendre is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui peut aisément être entamé. Pronounced \tɑ̃dʁ\. It ranks #4,999 in French word frequency. Often confused with terre and tenir.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \tɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,999 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tendre is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃dʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,999 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tendre, with forms such as "etndre", "tednre", and "tenddre". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "terre", "tenir", "tente", 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 tendre, spelled T-E-N-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui peut aisément être entamé.
- 2Qualifie les aliments qui n’offrent pas de résistance quand on les coupe, quand on les mâche.
- 3Qualifie également du pain nouvellement cuit.
- 4Qui est sensible, délicat, qui est aisément pénétré par les impressions extérieures.
- 5Délicat et faible, en parlant de la vue, des yeux.
- 6Qui a de la tendresse, qui est sensible à l’amitié, à la compassion, et plus particulièrement à l’amour.
- 7Qualifie les choses où se marque de l’amitié, de la compassion, où se manifeste de l’amour.
- 8Qualifie une couleur délicate, qui ne fatigue pas la vue.
- 9Qualifie un son de voix touchant et gracieux.
- 10Qualifie un air touchant et passionné.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etndre,tednre,tenddre,tendrre,tenndre,tenrde,tnedre,ttendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tendre
Misspelling Variants of "tendre"
Frequency rank: #4,999 in French
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Nearby French words
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