tentaient
\tɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“tentaient” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,374
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentaient · tentaient · French
tentaient · rank #28,374 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,374
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Telegraph
Nearest frequency peer: Telegraph (-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 « tentaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tartare
tartare
71,629 corpus weight
- Telegraph
Telegraph
71,628 corpus weight
- tentaient
tentaient
71,627 corpus weight
- théoricien
théoricien
71,626 corpus weight
- tordus
tordus
71,625 corpus weight
- touffe
touffe
71,624 corpus weight
What this shows « tentaient » 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 | tentaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tentaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tentaient (IPA \tɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,374 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tentaient, with forms such as "etntaient", "tenatient", and "tenntaient". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "tentent", "tentant", "tentait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tentaient, spelled T-E-N-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tentaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dehors, les rachistes (contraction de Russes et fascistes) comme les surnomment désormais les Ukrainiens, tentaient de s’emparer du pays.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etntaient
- tenatient
- tenntaient
- tentaeint
- tentaiennt
- tentaientt
- tentaietn
- tentainet
- tentiaent
- tenttaient
- tetnaient
- tnetaient
- ttentaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tentaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).