tentions
\tɑ̃.tjɔ̃\
The verdict
“tentions” is uncommon French (frequency #83,427 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,427
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentions · tentions · French
tentions · rank #83,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,427
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tere
Nearest frequency peer: tere (+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 « tentions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- temporale
temporale
16,577 corpus weight
- tenet
tenet
16,576 corpus weight
- tentions
tentions
16,574 corpus weight
- tere
tere
16,573 corpus weight
- Tessé
Tessé
16,572 corpus weight
- testera
testera
16,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tentions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tentions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tentions is uncommon French at frequency #83,427 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.tjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tentions, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 tentions, spelled T-E-N-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tenter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif 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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