tannage
\ta.naʒ\
The verdict
“tannage” is uncommon French (frequency #68,692 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,692
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tanner les peaux par macération dans un composé minéral ou organique pour les rendre imputrescibles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tannage · tannage · French
tannage · rank #68,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,692
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tanis
Nearest frequency peer: Tanis (-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 « tannage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tachetée
tachetée
31,312 corpus weight
- tangage
tangage
31,311 corpus weight
- Tanis
Tanis
31,310 corpus weight
- tannage
tannage
31,309 corpus weight
- teigneux
teigneux
31,307 corpus weight
- telluriques
telluriques
31,306 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tannage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tannage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tannage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tannage is uncommon French at frequency #68,692 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.naʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de tanner les peaux par macération dans un composé minéral ou organique pour les rendre imputrescibles.".
tannage has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tannage, spelled T-A-N-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de tanner les peaux par macération dans un composé minéral ou organique pour les rendre imputrescibles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tannage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écorce de chêne, employée pour le tannage des cuirs, est un élément important de la richesse forestière du département.
Monique Philip dispose d’un atout majeur: un tannage innovant, sans aucun produits chimiques.
This word in other languages
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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