Tancarville
\tɑ̃.kaʁ.vil\
The verdict
“Tancarville” is uncommon French (frequency #73,596 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,596
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tancarville · Tancarville · French
Tancarville · rank #73,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,596
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH talonnade
Nearest frequency peer: talonnade (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Tancarville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- T8
T8
26,409 corpus weight
- tabula
tabula
26,408 corpus weight
- Tahitienne
Tahitienne
26,407 corpus weight
- talonnade
talonnade
26,406 corpus weight
- Tancarville
Tancarville
26,405 corpus weight
- tassili
tassili
26,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tancarville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tancarville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.kaʁ.vil\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #73,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tancarville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tancarville is uncommon French at frequency #73,596 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɑ̃.kaʁ.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Tancarville in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tancarville, spelled T-A-N-C-A-R-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tancarville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les péniches ne pouvaient mouiller à Tancarville faute d'abri, elles sont descendues à La Roque, à 4 kilomètres plus en aval, en un point où il n'y a ni mascaret, ni ételles.
D’après M. l’ingénieur Renaud, auteur du projet du canal du Havre à Tancarville, l’exécution de cet ouvrage permettrait de réduire de 2 francs par tonne le prix du fret de Paris au Havre, et cette simple économie suffirait pour assurer à ce dernier port la clientèle de tout le bassin de la Seine au détriment d’Anvers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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