tiennent
\tjɛn\
The verdict
“tiennent” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,104
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de tenir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiennent · tiennent · French
tiennent · rank #4,104 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,104
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thèmes
Nearest frequency peer: thèmes (-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 « tiennent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- stations
stations
95,900 corpus weight
- succession
succession
95,899 corpus weight
- thèmes
thèmes
95,898 corpus weight
- tiennent
tiennent
95,897 corpus weight
- trains
trains
95,896 corpus weight
- UMP
UMP
95,895 corpus weight
What this shows « tiennent » 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 | tiennent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tjɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tiennent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tiennent (IPA \tjɛn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,104 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tiennent, with forms such as "itennent", "teinnent", and "tienennt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tiennes", "tienne", "tentent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tiennent, spelled T-I-E-N-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de tenir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tenir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tiennent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À peine l’indépendance de l’Amérique du Nord fut-elle proclamée, la paix conclue avec l’ancienne métropole, que ces hommes qui criaient si haut à la tyrannie, à l’oppression, qui réclamaient contre la violation du droit des gens, dont, disaient-ils, ils étaient victimes, organisèrent avec cet implacable sang-froid qu’ils tiennent de leur origine une chass…
Cela dit, il est absolument évident que Stendhal et Balzac, par-delà des manipulations scripturales de calendriers tiennent d’abord à ce que les choses soient claires et n’éprouvent nul besoin de les obscurcir, de les déséclairer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itennent
- teinnent
- tienennt
- tienent
- tiennennt
- tiennentt
- tiennetn
- tiennnet
- tinenent
- ttiennent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tiennent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).