ténor
French, noun/te.nɔʁ/
ténor is spelled T-É-N-O-R (5 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ténor is a French masculine noun meaning “tenor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Voix d’homme la plus élevée, qu’on appelait autrefois taille”.
What does ténor mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetenor
- 2
masculinebig name, bigwig
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Voix d’homme la plus élevée, qu’on appelait autrefois taille. 2. Chanteur qui a ce genre de voix. 3. Dans un orchestre de jazz, saxophone ténor. 4. Personne jouissant, dans certains domaines, d'une large audience.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ténor
- ténors plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ténor?
- /te.nɔʁ/
- \te.nɔʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ténor
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ténor in French?
ténor appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).