tennisman
\te.nis.man\
The verdict
“tennisman” is uncommon French (frequency #65,561 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,561
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Joueur de tennis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tennisman · tennisman · French
tennisman · rank #65,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,561
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tavu
Nearest frequency peer: tavu (-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 « tennisman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tapir
tapir
34,443 corpus weight
- tassée
tassée
34,442 corpus weight
- tavu
tavu
34,441 corpus weight
- tennisman
tennisman
34,440 corpus weight
- termineront
termineront
34,439 corpus weight
- Termonde
Termonde
34,438 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tennisman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tennisman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.nis.man\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tennisman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tennisman is uncommon French at frequency #65,561 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \te.nis.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Joueur de tennis.".
tennisman doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tennisman, spelled T-E-N-N-I-S-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Joueur de tennis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tennisman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tennismen entrent sur le court central.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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