tendresse
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,929
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
tendresse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est tendre ; il ne se dit qu’au sens moral de la sensibilité à l’amitié, à l’amour, aux affections de la nature. Pronounced \tɑ̃.dʁɛs\. It ranks #9,929 in French word frequency. Often confused with tendres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendresse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.dʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tendresse is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.dʁɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,929 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for tendresse, with forms such as "etndresse", "tednresse", and "tenddresse". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "tendres", 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 tendresse, spelled T-E-N-D-R-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est tendre ; il ne se dit qu’au sens moral de la sensibilité à l’amitié, à l’amour, aux affections de la nature.
- 2Amour, affection particulière portée à quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 3Caresses, témoignages d’affection.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etndresse,tednresse,tenddresse,tendersse,tendrese,tendreses,tendrresse,tendrsese,tenndresse,tenrdesse,tnedresse,ttendresse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tendresse
Misspelling Variants of "tendresse"
Frequency rank: #9,929 in French
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