tentante
\tɑ̃.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“tentante” is uncommon French (frequency #56,313 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,313
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de tentant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentante · tentante · French
tentante · rank #56,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,313
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tendrait
Nearest frequency peer: tendrait (-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 « tentante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Templeton
Templeton
43,691 corpus weight
- tempérés
tempérés
43,690 corpus weight
- tendrait
tendrait
43,689 corpus weight
- tentante
tentante
43,688 corpus weight
- tera
tera
43,687 corpus weight
- tiendras
tiendras
43,686 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tentante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tentante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tentante is uncommon French at frequency #56,313 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɑ̃.tɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de tentant.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tentante in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tentante, spelled T-E-N-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de tentant.
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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