tanguer
\tɑ̃.ɡe\
The verdict
“tanguer” is uncommon French (frequency #76,165 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,165
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Osciller dans un mouvement de tangage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tanguer · tanguer · French
tanguer · rank #76,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,165
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taulard
Nearest frequency peer: taulard (+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 « tanguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tachkent
Tachkent
23,839 corpus weight
- Takahata
Takahata
23,838 corpus weight
- tanguer
tanguer
23,836 corpus weight
- taulard
taulard
23,835 corpus weight
- Tauride
Tauride
23,834 corpus weight
- Taverny
Taverny
23,833 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tanguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tanguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tanguer is uncommon French at frequency #76,165 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tanguer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tanguer, spelled T-A-N-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Osciller dans un mouvement de tangage.
- 2Osciller.
- 3Danser le tango.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tanguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le temps se modère un peu, la mer toujours affreuse, le navire se comporte toujours très-bien, la mâture ne bouge pas quoique le navire tangue beaucoup, […].
Nous étions dans la région des vagues espagnoles, […]. Le pauvre petit Valdemar roulait, tanguait, et tout ce qu'il contenait d'animé et d'inanimé se livrait à une sarabande désordonnée. Nous aurions pu nous croire dans une baratte américaine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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