tanger
\tɐ̃.ʒˈeɾ\
The verdict
“tanger” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,604
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amener à, faire avancer, pourchasser, poursuivre, pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tanger · tanger · French
tanger · rank #18,604 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,604
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sécurisation
Nearest frequency peer: sécurisation (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tanger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sursaut
sursaut
81,400 corpus weight
- swing
swing
81,399 corpus weight
- sécurisation
sécurisation
81,398 corpus weight
- tanger
tanger
81,397 corpus weight
- TC
TC
81,396 corpus weight
- Thomson
Thomson
81,395 corpus weight
What this shows « tanger » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɐ̃.ʒˈeɾ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tanger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tanger (IPA \tɐ̃.ʒˈeɾ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,604 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Amener à, faire avancer, pourchasser, poursuivre, pousser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tanger, with forms such as "atnger", "tagner", and "tanegr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "taper", "tante", "tango", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tanger, spelled T-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Amener à, faire avancer, pourchasser, poursuivre, pousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lecteur de foi, pourtant, bien que présentement il ne voie la forme intéressée, distingue déjà davantage que son simulacre ; il en perçoit la réalité qu'il tangerait pour un peu si l'humaine appréhension d'être déçu ne refrénait les doigts d'abord curieux.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atnger
- tagner
- tanegr
- tangerr
- tangger
- tangre
- tannger
- tnager
- ttanger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tanger - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tanger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).