tentez
\tɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“tentez” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,341
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentez · tentez · French
tentez · rank #18,341 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,341
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenta
Nearest frequency peer: tenta (-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 « tentez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tam
tam
81,663 corpus weight
- teinture
teinture
81,662 corpus weight
- tenta
tenta
81,661 corpus weight
- tentez
tentez
81,660 corpus weight
- Thiago
Thiago
81,658 corpus weight
- tirait
tirait
81,657 corpus weight
What this shows « tentez » 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 | tentez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tentez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tentez (IPA \tɑ̃.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,341 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tentez, with forms such as "etntez", "tenetz", and "tenntez". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tête", "texte", "têtes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tentez, spelled T-E-N-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tenter.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de tenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tentez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous tentez de retourner à votre siège et de remettre vos lunettes, mais cette bulle-là ne peut pas être déséclatée.
Si vous vous retrouvez pris dans la baïne, ne tentez pas de rejoindre la terre ferme en nageant à contre-courant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etntez
- tenetz
- tenntez
- tentezz
- tenttez
- tentze
- tetnez
- tnetez
- ttentez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tentez - 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 "tentez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).