tanche
\tɑ̃ʃ\
The verdict
“tanche” is uncommon French (frequency #66,376 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,376
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de poisson osseux d’eau douce d’Eurasie de la famille de la carpe, dont les écailles sont petites et la peau noirâtre et gluante.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tanche · tanche · French
tanche · rank #66,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,376
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tenterais
Nearest frequency peer: tenterais (+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 « tanche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tachés
tachés
33,629 corpus weight
- Taiji
Taiji
33,628 corpus weight
- taillez
taillez
33,627 corpus weight
- tanche
tanche
33,625 corpus weight
- tenterais
tenterais
33,624 corpus weight
- TFT
TFT
33,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tanche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tanche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tanche is uncommon French at frequency #66,376 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tanche in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tanche, spelled T-A-N-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de poisson osseux d’eau douce d’Eurasie de la famille de la carpe, dont les écailles sont petites et la peau noirâtre et gluante.
- 2Idiot.
- 3Homosexuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tanche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poissons qu'on trouve dans la Charente sont la tanche, la truite, l’anguille, la plie, le barbeau, le chabot, l’âton, le dard, la brème, le goujon, l’ablette et l’écrevisse. Ceux qui remontent de la mer sont la lamproie, le meuil, qui s'arrêtent le plus ordinairement à Jarnac; la gathe, et rarement l’alose.
les tanches, sombres et magnifiques, pareilles à du cuivre rouge taché de vert-de-gris.
This word in other languages
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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