tentatrice
\tɑ̃.ta.tʁis\
The verdict
“tentatrice” is uncommon French (frequency #86,238 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,238
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui incite à une action que la morale réprouve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentatrice · tentatrice · French
tentatrice · rank #86,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,238
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH terminerons
Nearest frequency peer: terminerons (+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 « tentatrice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tassent
tassent
13,767 corpus weight
- teinter
teinter
13,766 corpus weight
- telenovelas
telenovelas
13,765 corpus weight
- tentatrice
tentatrice
13,763 corpus weight
- terminerons
terminerons
13,762 corpus weight
- termini
termini
13,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tentatrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentatrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ta.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tentatrice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tentatrice is uncommon French at frequency #86,238 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.ta.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui incite à une action que la morale réprouve.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tentatrice, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 tentatrice, spelled T-E-N-T-A-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui incite à une action que la morale réprouve.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tentatrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais c’était une tentatrice diabolique, un feu que je n’osais toucher. « Tu n’auras jamais le miroir d’Archimède. Cela équivaudrait à donner un baril de poudre à un pyromane. »
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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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