tankers
\tɑ̃.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“tankers” is uncommon French (frequency #88,150 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,150
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tanker.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tankers · tankers · French
tankers · rank #88,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,150
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tardèrent
Nearest frequency peer: tardèrent (+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 « tankers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tabitha
Tabitha
11,855 corpus weight
- tankers
tankers
11,851 corpus weight
- tardèrent
tardèrent
11,850 corpus weight
- tarses
tarses
11,848 corpus weight
- taylorisme
taylorisme
11,847 corpus weight
- Technik
Technik
11,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tankers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tankers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tankers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tankers is uncommon French at frequency #88,150 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tanker.".
tankers doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tankers, spelled T-A-N-K-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tanker.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tankers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Shell apporte aussi aux associés le précieux appui de sa flotte de tankers.
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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