tangara
French, noun\tɑ̃.ɡa.ʁa\
tangara is spelled T-A-N-G-A-R-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written French, the 157,622nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tangara is a French masculine noun meaning “tanager” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom ambigu normalisé donné à quarante genres de passereaux de la famille des thraupidés, comprenant environ…”.
What does tangara mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tanagrine
noun
- 1
masculinetanager
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom ambigu normalisé donné à quarante genres de passereaux de la famille des thraupidés, comprenant environ 110 espèces caractérisées par leurs vives couleurs, riches et variées, similaires à celles des callistes, et qui fréquentent surtout les forêts tropicales de toute l’écozone néotropicale, et en particulier du bassin amazonien (genres principaux: Thraupis (genre-type), Tachyphonus, Ramphocelu
noun: 1. Genre d’oiseau appartenant à la famille des Thraupidae, dans l’ordre des Passeriformes.
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 tangara
- tangarae feminine
- tangaras masculine plural
- tangaraes feminine plural
- Tangaras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tangara?
- \tɑ̃.ɡa.ʁa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tangara in French?
tangara appears about once in every 24 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).