ténor
\te.nɔʁ\
The verdict
“ténor” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,801. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,801
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voix d’homme la plus élevée, qu’on appelait autrefois taille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenor · ténor · French
ténor · rank #21,801 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,801
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH téléréalité
Nearest frequency peer: téléréalité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ténor »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- traitance
traitance
78,203 corpus weight
- tree
tree
78,202 corpus weight
- téléréalité
téléréalité
78,201 corpus weight
- ténor
ténor
78,200 corpus weight
- ultérieures
ultérieures
78,199 corpus weight
- utilisais
utilisais
78,198 corpus weight
What this shows « ténor » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ténor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.nɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ténor »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ténor (IPA \te.nɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,801 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ténor, with forms such as "tenor", "tnéor", and "tténor". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tor", "tenu", "Thor", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ténor, spelled T-É-N-O-R.
Definition
- 1Voix d’homme la plus élevée, qu’on appelait autrefois taille.
- 2Chanteur qui a ce genre de voix.
- 3Dans un orchestre de jazz, saxophone ténor.
- 4Personne jouissant, dans certains domaines, d'une large audience.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ténor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sans prévenir, il se mit à chanter, opératiquement, dans le registre ténor et en italien, même si Kit savait parfaitement que Reef n'avait aucune oreille, et était incapable de chanter en entier For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow sans changer de ton.
Ténor léger.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tenor
- tnéor
- tténor
- ténnor
- ténorr
- ténro
- téonr
- étnor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ténor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ténor", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).