Tania or tanya?
tania is a noun meaning “New cocoyam, yautia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium)”; tanya is a noun meaning “Alternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”)”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) tanya is about 2.4 times as common as tania.
What is the difference between tania and tanya?
| tania | tanya | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”) | |
| Example | Most research on Colocasia esculenta has been done on taro (C. esculenta var. esculenta), which is grown in Hawaii, the Pacific islands and… | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words | 2.4 times per million words |
Sources: tania and tanya in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of tania and tanya
tanya
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Alternative form of tania (“new cocoyam or taro”)
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, tania or tanya?
tania appears 1.0 times per million words; tanya 2.4 times per million words.
tania 1.0 times per million wordstanya 2.4 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).