tangage
\tɑ̃.ɡaʒ\
The verdict
“tangage” is uncommon French (frequency #68,690 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,690
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oscillations d’un véhicule autour de son axe transversal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tangage · tangage · French
tangage · rank #68,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,690
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tachetée
Nearest frequency peer: tachetée (-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 « tangage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- synodes
synodes
31,314 corpus weight
- sécessionni…
sécessionnistes
31,313 corpus weight
- tachetée
tachetée
31,312 corpus weight
- tangage
tangage
31,311 corpus weight
- Tanis
Tanis
31,310 corpus weight
- tannage
tannage
31,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tangage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tangage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ɡaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tangage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tangage is uncommon French at frequency #68,690 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.ɡaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tangage in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tangage, spelled T-A-N-G-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Oscillations d’un véhicule autour de son axe transversal.
- 2Balancement d’un navire de l’avant à l’arrière, et de l’arrière à l’avant, alternativement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tangage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le cavalement est un des six degrés de liberté d’un corps libre en mouvement, les autres étant l’embardée, le pilonnement, le lacet, le tangage et le roulis.
L’appareil ballottait comme un ivrogne dans l’air froid, oscillant dans un vent de travers. […] Leurs intestins yoyotaient de bas en haut sous l’effet du tangage et du roulis.
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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