tendresses
\tɑ̃d.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“tendresses” is uncommon French (frequency #89,240 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,240
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tendresse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tendresses · tendresses · French
tendresses · rank #89,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,240
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terro
Nearest frequency peer: terro (+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 « tendresses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taquiné
taquiné
10,765 corpus weight
- Taxon
Taxon
10,763 corpus weight
- tendresses
tendresses
10,761 corpus weight
- terro
terro
10,760 corpus weight
- thalamus
thalamus
10,758 corpus weight
- thomiste
thomiste
10,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tendresses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tendresses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃d.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tendresses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tendresses is uncommon French at frequency #89,240 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃d.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tendresse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tendresses, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tendresses, spelled T-E-N-D-R-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tendresse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tendresses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nature, dans son passé organique et sa complexité d’écosystème, révèle ce qui semble avoir disparu, le fait apparaître en réalité. Elle renferme en outre la part sauvage de l’humain, dans l’humain. Au cœur même des êtres, elle pense, et témoigne du désastre des tendresses.
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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