tentures
\tɑ̃.tyʁ\
The verdict
“tentures” is uncommon French (frequency #50,541 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,541
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tenture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tentures · tentures · French
tentures · rank #50,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,541
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tempérance
Nearest frequency peer: tempérance (-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 « tentures »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teints
teints
49,463 corpus weight
- tempérance
tempérance
49,461 corpus weight
- tentures
tentures
49,460 corpus weight
- terrifiantes
terrifiantes
49,459 corpus weight
- testeurs
testeurs
49,458 corpus weight
- Thorez
Thorez
49,457 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tentures » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tentures |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tentures » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tentures is uncommon French at frequency #50,541 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.tyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tenture.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tentures in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tentures, spelled T-E-N-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tenture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tentures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme il fait froid ! s’était-il écrié tandis que ses sœurs, aux cheveux dénoués, habillées de chemise de nuit pâles, de jupes onduleuses et de robes de lin froufroutantes, ornées de rubans multicolores (zinzolin, nacarat, aurore), forçaient les malles, les débarras et les penderies, allumaient les bougies, plantaient des bouquets dans les vases, crocheta…
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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