tenir debout
The verdict
“tenir debout” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sembler valable, être cohérent, avoir une apparence logique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenir debout |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tə.niʁ də.bu\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tenir debout” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tenir debout is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tə.niʁ də.bu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sembler valable, être cohérent, avoir une apparence logique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tenir debout in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tenir debout, spelled T-E-N-I-R- -D-E-B-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sembler valable, être cohérent, avoir une apparence logique.
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Using “tenir debout”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-E-N-I-R- -D-E-B-O-U-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tə.niʁ də.bu\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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