tenon
The verdict
“tenon” is an uncommon French word, ranked #67,158 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,158
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Extrémité d’une pièce de bois ou de métal diminuée d’une partie de son épaisseur, qu’on fait entrer dans une mortaise, c’est-à-dire dans un trou de même forme et de même grandeur fait à une autre p...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.nɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tenon” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tenon is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tə.nɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,158 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tenon 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 tenon, spelled T-E-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extrémité d’une pièce de bois ou de métal diminuée d’une partie de son épaisseur, qu’on fait entrer dans une mortaise, c’est-à-dire dans un trou de même forme et de même grandeur fait à une autre pièce.
- 2Partie mâle, en général garnie de liège pour assurer l’étanchéité, d’un corps d’instrument de la famille des bois qui s’insère dans le corps voisin pour permettre l’assemblage de l’instrument.
- 3Petite cheville de fer qui sert à assujettir le canon d’une arme sur son bois.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #67,158 in French
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Using “tenon”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-E-N-O-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tə.nɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our French index: