tenions
\tə.njɔ̃\
The verdict
“tenions” is uncommon French (frequency #54,951 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,951
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de tenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenions · tenions · French
tenions · rank #54,951 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,951
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tendez
Nearest frequency peer: tendez (-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 « tenions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teasing
teasing
45,053 corpus weight
- Teixeira
Teixeira
45,052 corpus weight
- tendez
tendez
45,051 corpus weight
- tenions
tenions
45,050 corpus weight
- tenterons
tenterons
45,049 corpus weight
- terrifie
terrifie
45,048 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tə.njɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenions is uncommon French at frequency #54,951 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tə.njɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tenions in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tenions, spelled T-E-N-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de tenir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de tenir.
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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