tentait

Name: tentait, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\tɑ̃.tɛ\

/\tɑ̃.tɛ\/ verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“tentait” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,811
frequency rank, French: 3,703
“T” headwords: 10
tracked misspellings: 11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tentait · tentait · French

tentait · rank #14,811 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

FREQ-MID #14,811
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-3 3 vowels
CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
VAR-MID 10 variants
BOOK-MID 3,703
PHOTO-FINISH tenaient

Nearest frequency peer: tenaient (-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.

taupe

85,194
ten

85,192
tenaient

85,191
tentait

85,190
TPE

85,188
traduite

85,187

What this shows « tentait » 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).

tentait vs tentent

71% similar

tentait vs tentant

86% similar

tentait vs tenterait

78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tentait
Property	Value
Headword	tentait
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
IPA	\tɑ̃.tɛ\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#14,811
Misspellings tracked	10
Confusable pairs	11
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tentait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tentaitse place ici:

#14,811

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tenaient » (#14,810), « ten » (#14,809), « TPE » (#14,813). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tentait » est au #14,811. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around tentait (IPA \tɑ̃.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,811 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tentait, with forms such as "etntait", "tenatit", and "tenntait". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "tentent", "tentant", "tenterait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tentait, spelled T-E-N-T-A-I-T.

Definition

1
Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tentait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Et cela ne vous tentait pas d’avoir un chalbari devant vos fenêtres ?

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

etntait
tenatit
tenntait
tentaitt
tentati
tentiat
tenttait
tetnait
tnetait
ttentait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tentait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "tentait"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tentait"?

"tentait" is spelled T-E-N-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑ̃.tɛ\.

What does "tentait" mean?

As a verb, "tentait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.

What words are commonly confused with "tentait"?

"tentait" is commonly confused with "tentent", "tentant", "tenterait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "tentait"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tentait" is \tɑ̃.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "tentait" come from?

"tentait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tentait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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