tenseur
\tɑ̃.sœʁ\
The verdict
“tenseur” is uncommon French (frequency #63,406 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,406
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tend, qui provoque une tension.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenseur · tenseur · French
tenseur · rank #63,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,406
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenanciers
Nearest frequency peer: tenanciers (-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 « tenseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tear
tear
36,598 corpus weight
- technocrate
technocrate
36,597 corpus weight
- tenanciers
tenanciers
36,596 corpus weight
- tenseur
tenseur
36,595 corpus weight
- Thiais
Thiais
36,594 corpus weight
- Thora
Thora
36,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.sœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenseur is uncommon French at frequency #63,406 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɑ̃.sœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tenseur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tenseur, spelled T-E-N-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui tend, qui provoque une tension.
- 2Muscle qui produit la tension d’une structure anatomique. → voir extenseur
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette crème a un effet tenseur et raffermissant.
Le muscle tenseur du voile du palais en assure la mobilité.
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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