Tanja
The verdict
“Tanja” is uncommon French (frequency #87,198 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,198
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tanja · Tanja · French
Tanja · rank #87,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tacot
Nearest frequency peer: tacot (-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 « Tanja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- synodale
synodale
12,806 corpus weight
- séduites
séduites
12,805 corpus weight
- tacot
tacot
12,804 corpus weight
- Tanja
Tanja
12,803 corpus weight
- tapageuse
tapageuse
12,802 corpus weight
- Tarrant
Tarrant
12,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tanja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tanja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tanja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tanja is uncommon French at frequency #87,198 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Tanja, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Tanja, spelled T-A-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tanja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après quinze années d’études assidues de violoncelle, le diplôme du conservatoire en poche, Tanja est maintenant une excellente violoncelliste qui se consacre avec passion à son instrument. (site andrerieu .com) (concerne Tanja Derwahl, NDLR)
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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