tenterons
\tɑ̃.tə.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“tenterons” is uncommon French (frequency #54,952 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,952
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du futur de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenterons · tenterons · French
tenterons · rank #54,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,952
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenions
Nearest frequency peer: tenions (-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 « tenterons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Teixeira
Teixeira
45,052 corpus weight
- tendez
tendez
45,051 corpus weight
- tenions
tenions
45,050 corpus weight
- tenterons
tenterons
45,049 corpus weight
- terrifie
terrifie
45,048 corpus weight
- terrorisés
terrorisés
45,047 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenterons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenterons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tə.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenterons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenterons is uncommon French at frequency #54,952 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.tə.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du pluriel du futur de tenter.".
tenterons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tenterons, spelled T-E-N-T-E-R-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du futur de tenter.
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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