tendre l’autre joue
\tɑ̃dʁ l‿otʁ ʒu\
The verdict
“tendre l’autre joue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accepter, par humilité chrétienne, un redoublement d’outrages, sans chercher à se venger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendre-l-autre-joue · tendre l’autre joue · French
tendre l’autre joue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendre l’autre joue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃dʁ l‿otʁ ʒu\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tendre l’autre joue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃dʁ l‿otʁ ʒu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accepter, par humilité chrétienne, un redoublement d’outrages, sans chercher à se venger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tendre l’autre joue in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tendre l’autre joue, spelled T-E-N-D-R-E- -L-’-A-U-T-R-E- -J-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Accepter, par humilité chrétienne, un redoublement d’outrages, sans chercher à se venger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tendre l’autre joue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si quelqu’un te gifle sur la joue droite, tends-lui aussi l’autre.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.