tentons
\tɑ̃.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“tentons” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,213
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentons · tentons · French
tentons · rank #32,213 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,213
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH ternes
Nearest frequency peer: ternes (+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 « tentons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Talleyrand
Talleyrand
67,791 corpus weight
- tartiner
tartiner
67,790 corpus weight
- tentons
tentons
67,788 corpus weight
- ternes
ternes
67,787 corpus weight
- testées
testées
67,786 corpus weight
- those
those
67,785 corpus weight
What this shows « tentons » 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 | tentons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tentons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tentons (IPA \tɑ̃.tɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,213 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tentons, with forms such as "etntons", "tenntons", and "tenotns". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "téton", "tonton", "textos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 tentons, spelled T-E-N-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tenter.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de tenter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tentons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En fait, nous tentons de connaître dans les moindres détails les mécanismes de bioaccumulation ou, au contraire, de bioélimination des toxines et d’arriver à les reproduire expérimentalement, poursuivit Cailly, nullement perturbé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etntons
- tenntons
- tenotns
- tentnos
- tentonns
- tentonss
- tentosn
- tenttons
- tetnons
- tnetons
- ttentons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tentons - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).