tenure
\tə.nyʁ\
The verdict
“tenure” is uncommon French (frequency #81,628 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,628
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre concédée à une personne non noble par un seigneur, en retenant la propriété pour n’accorder que la jouissance précaire au concessionnaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenure · tenure · French
tenure · rank #81,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,628
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tendancieuse
Nearest frequency peer: tendancieuse (-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 « tenure »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- teal
teal
18,377 corpus weight
- tena
tena
18,375 corpus weight
- tendancieuse
tendancieuse
18,374 corpus weight
- tenure
tenure
18,373 corpus weight
- terminèrent
terminèrent
18,372 corpus weight
- terrarium
terrarium
18,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tenure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tenure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tə.nyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tenure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tenure is uncommon French at frequency #81,628 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tə.nyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
tenure doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tenure, spelled T-E-N-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Terre concédée à une personne non noble par un seigneur, en retenant la propriété pour n’accorder que la jouissance précaire au concessionnaire.
- 2Mode de possession d’une terre.
- 3Mouvance, dépendance d’un fief.
- 4Exploitation agricole en fermage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tenure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les tenures sont des terres accordées par le seigneur aux paysans. En échange de leurs terres, les paysans fournissent le cens.
Le seigneur foncier morcela son domaine, concéda en tenure chacune de ses parcelles.
This word in other languages
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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