tanner
/ˈtænɚ/noun, adjective
tanner is spelled T-A-N-N-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tanner means “A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tanner is tanners.
How many letters and syllables are in tanner?
| Letters | 6: T-A-N-N-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tanner?
Tanner appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tanner?
- US /ˈtænɚ/
Tanner has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tanner.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with tanner?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tanner from its last stressed vowel (/ænəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tanner
- tanners plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tanner mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
- 2
A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
- 3
A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
- 4
UKcolloquialA former British coin worth six old pence.
- 5
Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.
Near-synonym: snow crab
adjective
- 1
comparative form of tan: more tan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tanner in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense person whose occupation is to tan:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does tanner come from?
From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).