tangerine
\tɑ̃.ʒə.ʁin\
The verdict
“tangerine” is uncommon French (frequency #64,123 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,123
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de mandarine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tangerine · tangerine · French
tangerine · rank #64,123 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,123
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taillant
Nearest frequency peer: taillant (-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 « tangerine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sutil
sutil
35,881 corpus weight
- sélecteur
sélecteur
35,880 corpus weight
- taillant
taillant
35,879 corpus weight
- tangerine
tangerine
35,878 corpus weight
- tapin
tapin
35,877 corpus weight
- terminaient
terminaient
35,876 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tangerine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tangerine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ʒə.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tangerine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tangerine is uncommon French at frequency #64,123 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.ʒə.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de mandarine.".
tangerine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tangerine, spelled T-A-N-G-E-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de mandarine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tangerine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je lui dis que Tanger est une ville ou peut-être un pays, que la tangerine est un fruit, la tangente une divergence géométrique.
À côté du matelas, un grand panier rempli à ras bord de tangerines de Kyushu - un cadeau coûteux de la paroisse - libérait ses senteurs divines.
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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