tane
"tane" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tane” is uncommon English (frequency #85,845 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,845
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of taken.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tane · tane · English
tane · rank #85,845 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,845
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tantalus
Nearest frequency peer: tantalus (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “tane”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Talwar
Talwar
14,159 corpus weight
- Tamerlane
Tamerlane
14,158 corpus weight
- tane
tane
14,156 corpus weight
- tantalus
tantalus
14,155 corpus weight
- tarin
tarin
14,154 corpus weight
- Tartu
Tartu
14,153 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tane” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tane |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tane” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tane is uncommon English at frequency #85,845 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of taken.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tane in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is tane, spelled T-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of taken.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d? / And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?
Ophe[lia]. He hath my Lord of late made many tenders / Of his affection to me. / […] / Pol[onius]. Marry I vvill teach you, thinke your ſelfe a babie / That you haue tane theſe tenders for true pay / VVhich are not ſterling, tender your ſelfe more dearely […]
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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