tamanoir
French, noun/ta.ma.nwaʁ/
tamanoir is spelled T-A-M-A-N-O-I-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written French, the 138,201st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tamanoir is a French masculine noun meaning “giant anteater” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espèce de fourmilier de grande taille, originaire d’Amérique du Sud”.
What does tamanoir mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegiant anteater
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espèce de fourmilier de grande taille, originaire d’Amérique du Sud.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tamanoir
- tamanoirs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tamanoir?
- /ta.ma.nwaʁ/
- \ta.ma.nwaʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tamanoir in French?
tamanoir appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).