tanna
\ta.na\
The verdict
“tanna” is uncommon French (frequency #98,553 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,553
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tanner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tanna · tanna · French
tanna · rank #98,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,553
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tanches
Nearest frequency peer: tanches (-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 « tanna »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tamagotchi
tamagotchi
1,452 corpus weight
- Tampere
Tampere
1,450 corpus weight
- tanches
tanches
1,449 corpus weight
- tanna
tanna
1,448 corpus weight
- taxonomique
taxonomique
1,447 corpus weight
- terrorisant
terrorisant
1,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tanna » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanna |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tanna » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tanna is uncommon French at frequency #98,553 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tanner.".
tanna has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tanna, spelled T-A-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de tanner.
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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