tanière
\ta.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“tanière” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,064. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,064
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retraite souterraine où des bêtes sauvages se retirent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taniere · tanière · French
tanière · rank #39,064 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,064
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taillefer
Nearest frequency peer: Taillefer (-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 « tanière »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- séparations
séparations
60,940 corpus weight
- Tadjikistan
Tadjikistan
60,939 corpus weight
- Taillefer
Taillefer
60,938 corpus weight
- tanière
tanière
60,937 corpus weight
- tchadien
tchadien
60,936 corpus weight
- tenteront
tenteront
60,935 corpus weight
What this shows « tanière » 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 | tanière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tanière »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tanière (IPA \ta.njɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,064 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tanière, with forms such as "atnière", "tainère", and "taniere". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tanner", "théière", "taire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tanière, spelled T-A-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Retraite souterraine où des bêtes sauvages se retirent.
- 2Habitation sommaire rappelant le gîte d’un animal.
- 3Habitation habituellement éloignée et utilisée par les hors-la-loi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tanière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… ; tu périras comme le renard dans sa tanière, lorsque les paysans ont mis le feu à la paille humide.
« Ce lieu est vraiment tout à fait impressionnant. En fait, on se croirait… — Dans la tanière du Fantôme gris ? — Je dirais même que c’en est pour ainsi dire l’exacte réplique. »
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atnière
- tainère
- taniere
- tanirèe
- tanièer
- tanièrre
- tannière
- tanèire
- tnaière
- ttanière
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tanière - 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 "tanière", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).