tentacule
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#64,821
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tentacule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appendice charnu et mobile dont plusieurs animaux sont pourvus, et qu’ils tendent en avant, soit pour tâter le terrain ou les objets environnants, soit pour saisir leur proie. Pronounced \tɑ̃.ta.kyl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentacule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ta.kyl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tentacule is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.ta.kyl\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,821 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tentacule 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 tentacule, spelled T-E-N-T-A-C-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Appendice charnu et mobile dont plusieurs animaux sont pourvus, et qu’ils tendent en avant, soit pour tâter le terrain ou les objets environnants, soit pour saisir leur proie.
- 2Tout ce qui attrape, enserre, agrippe, etc.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #64,821 in French
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