tens
The verdict
“tens” is uncommon French (frequency #93,308 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,308
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tens · tens · French
tens · rank #93,308 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,308
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tells
Nearest frequency peer: tells (-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 « tens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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6,698 corpus weight
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6,695 corpus weight
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tells
6,694 corpus weight
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6,693 corpus weight
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tense
6,692 corpus weight
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6,691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,308 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tens is uncommon French at frequency #93,308 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tens has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tens, spelled T-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Temps.
- 2Temps, les conditions atmosphériques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bons fu li siecles al tens ancienor
Quant du souper fu tans et heure
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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