tenus
\tə.ny\
The verdict
“tenus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,348
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel du participe passé de tenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tenus · tenus · French
tenus · rank #6,348 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,348
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH ss
Nearest frequency peer: ss (-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 « tenus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saisie
saisie
93,656 corpus weight
- soutiennent
soutiennent
93,655 corpus weight
- ss
ss
93,654 corpus weight
- tenus
tenus
93,653 corpus weight
- trahison
trahison
93,651 corpus weight
- urgences
urgences
93,650 corpus weight
What this shows « tenus » 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 | tenus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tə.ny\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tenus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tenus (IPA \tə.ny\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,348 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel du participe passé de tenir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tenus, with forms such as "etnus", "tennus", and "tensu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tes", "TNS", "tus", 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tenus, spelled T-E-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel du participe passé de tenir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etnus
- tennus
- tensu
- tenuss
- teuns
- tneus
- ttenus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tenus - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).