tangue
French, noun
tangue is spelled T-A-N-G-U-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tangue is a French masculine noun meaning “tenrec” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tanguer. With an accent, tangué is a different word: “past participle of tanguer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sable carbonaté de dépôt marin, vaseux, utilisé comme amendement calcique pour les terres agricoles”.
What does tangue mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetenrec
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of tanguer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sable carbonaté de dépôt marin, vaseux, utilisé comme amendement calcique pour les terres agricoles. 2. Dépôt sédimentaire qui recouvre, à marée basse, le fond de certaines baies comme celle du Mont St Michel.
noun: 1. Variante de tanrec.
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 tangue
- tangues plural
- tanguée feminine
- tangués masculine plural
- tanguées feminine plural
- tangu
- tanque
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tangue in French?
tangue appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).