tennis
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,969
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tennis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de jeu de balle qui se joue avec des raquettes sur un terrain divisé en deux par un filet. Pronounced \tɛ.nis\. It ranks #3,969 in French word frequency. Often confused with tenus and Tunis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tennis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.nis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tennis is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛ.nis\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,969 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 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tennis, with forms such as "etnnis", "tenins", and "tenis". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tenus", "Tunis", "terni", and more, 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 tennis, spelled T-E-N-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de jeu de balle qui se joue avec des raquettes sur un terrain divisé en deux par un filet.
- 2Terrain destiné à pratiquer ce jeu.
- 3Figure qui consiste à lancer un objet plus haut que les autres, cet objet étant toujours lancé plus haut en alternant la main gauche et la main droite, et chaque objet étant lancé à la main opposée.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: etnnis,tenins,tenis,tenniss,tennsi,tnenis,ttennis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tennis
Misspelling Variants of "tennis"
Frequency rank: #3,969 in French
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