tanke auf
\ˌtaŋkə ˈaʊ̯f\
The verdict
“tanke auf” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de auftanken.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanke auf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˌtaŋkə ˈaʊ̯f\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tanke auf” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tanke auf is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌtaŋkə ˈaʊ̯f\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for tanke auf in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tanke auf, spelled T-A-N-K-E- -A-U-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de auftanken.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de auftanken.
- 3Première personne du singulier subjonctif présent I dans une proposition principale de auftanken.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier subjonctif présent I dans une proposition principale de auftanken.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-N-K-E- -A-U-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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