tenterait
\tɑ̃.tə.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“tenterait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,564. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,564
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenterait · tenterait · French
tenterait · rank #38,564 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,564
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenaces
Nearest frequency peer: tenaces (-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 « tenterait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sémantiques
sémantiques
61,440 corpus weight
- tarse
tarse
61,439 corpus weight
- tenaces
tenaces
61,438 corpus weight
- tenterait
tenterait
61,437 corpus weight
- terroriser
terroriser
61,436 corpus weight
- Theater
Theater
61,435 corpus weight
What this shows « tenterait » 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 | tenterait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tə.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,564 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tenterait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tenterait (IPA \tɑ̃.tə.ʁɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #38,564 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de tenter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenterait, with forms such as "etnterait", "tenetrait", and "tennterait". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "tenteront", "tentèrent", "tentait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tenterait, spelled T-E-N-T-E-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du conditionnel présent de tenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tenterait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En conséquence, tout jeune homme qui, ne pouvant lutter contre son instinct de la reproducution jusqu’à l’époque de son mariage, pénétrerait ou tenterait de pénétrer dans un ménage ou aurait des relations unisexuelles quelconques, sera saisi et condamné à être abeilardisé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnterait
- tenetrait
- tennterait
- tentearit
- tenteraitt
- tenterati
- tenteriat
- tenterrait
- tentreait
- tentterait
- tetnerait
- tneterait
- ttenterait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenterait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tenterait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).