tannish
/ˈtænɪʃ/adjective
tannish is an adjective meaning “Somewhat tan in colour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-N-N-I-S-H, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does tannish mean?
adjective
- 1
Somewhat tan in colour.
The mushrooms were creamy white with tannish caps.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tannish?
- /ˈtænɪʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tannish.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of tannish
- more tannish comparative
- most tannish superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tannish?
Tannish appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Where does tannish come from?
From tan + -ish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).