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Is it “tenative” or “tentative”?

Is it “tenative” or “tentative”?

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  1. This is a matter of opinion, as the word has a similar pronunciation and spelling to both “tentative” and “tenative”. “Tentative” is the most commonly used of the two spellings, and the one that appears more frequently in older texts.

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