tango
\ˈtaŋɡo\
The verdict
“tango” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,681. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,681
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour la lettre latine T.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tango · tango · French
tango · rank #12,681 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,681
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tactiques
Nearest frequency peer: tactiques (-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 « tango »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suffire
suffire
87,323 corpus weight
- suivra
suivra
87,322 corpus weight
- tactiques
tactiques
87,321 corpus weight
- tango
tango
87,320 corpus weight
- Thibault
Thibault
87,318 corpus weight
- toc
toc
87,317 corpus weight
What this shows « tango » 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 | tango |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtaŋɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tango »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tango (IPA \ˈtaŋɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,681 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tango, with forms such as "atngo", "tagno", and "tanggo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tant", "tank", "Togo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tango, spelled T-A-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1(radiotéléphonie) Mot de code radiotéléphonique de l'OACI, OTAN et SIA pour la lettre latine T.
- 2Pavillon du code international des signaux maritimes correspondant à la lettre T.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atngo
- tagno
- tanggo
- tanngo
- tanog
- tnago
- ttango
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tango - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "tango", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).