tentais
\tɑ̃.tɛ\
The verdict
“tentais” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,224
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentais · tentais · French
tentais · rank #48,224 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,224
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH technologique…
Nearest frequency peer: technologiquement (-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 « tentais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Tchaïkovski
Tchaïkovski
51,780 corpus weight
- technical
technical
51,779 corpus weight
- technologiq…
technologiquement
51,778 corpus weight
- tentais
tentais
51,777 corpus weight
- terreaux
terreaux
51,776 corpus weight
- thons
thons
51,774 corpus weight
What this shows « tentais » 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 | tentais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tentais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tentais (IPA \tɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,224 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tentais, with forms such as "etntais", "tenatis", and "tenntais". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tentés", "Tetris", "tentant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tentais, spelled T-E-N-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tentais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En regard de ce monstre, et malgré ses origines, notre Est-Allemand faisait figure de vachette. Je tentais de le tauriniser en pensée quand je lui arrachais une de ces pièces de Hummel ou de Kuhlau qu'on dirait composées pour le seul désagrément du voisinage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etntais
- tenatis
- tenntais
- tentaiss
- tentasi
- tentias
- tenttais
- tetnais
- tnetais
- ttentais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tentais - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).