tente
\tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“tente” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,686. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,686
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de pavillon fait ordinairement de toile, d’étoffe tendue, dont on se sert à la guerre, à la campagne, pour se mettre à couvert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tente · tente · French
tente · rank #1,686 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,686
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sûrement
Nearest frequency peer: sûrement (-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 « tente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- statut
statut
98,318 corpus weight
- sélection
sélection
98,317 corpus weight
- sûrement
sûrement
98,316 corpus weight
- tente
tente
98,315 corpus weight
- types
types
98,314 corpus weight
- vivant
vivant
98,313 corpus weight
What this shows « tente » 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 | tente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tente (IPA \tɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,686 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tente, with forms such as "etnte", "tenet", and "tennte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TNT", "tte", "tête", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tente, spelled T-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de pavillon fait ordinairement de toile, d’étoffe tendue, dont on se sert à la guerre, à la campagne, pour se mettre à couvert.
- 2Abri du campeur souvent en toile imperméable et avec une armature légère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À partir du mois de juin, la plage, aujourd'hui disparue, se couvrait de tentes pour la saison des bains de mer.
Sous la tente maure, une petite loge de tissus isole parfois la couche conjugale, tandis que sous la tente bédouine , une cloison de roseau circonscrit le horma (pluriel : harem), l'espace intime réservé à une épouse et à ses jeunes enfants.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnte
- tenet
- tennte
- tentte
- tetne
- tnete
- ttente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tente - 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.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).