tannant
\ta.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“tannant” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tanne ; qui sert à tanner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tannant · tannant · French
tannant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tannant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tannant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tannant is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.nɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tannant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tannant, spelled T-A-N-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui tanne ; qui sert à tanner.
- 2Se dit d’un produit qu’on applique sur les coussinets très sollicités des chiens de travail ou des chiens sportifs qui augmente l’épaisseur de la couche cornée et renforce ainsi la solidité des coussinets pour éviter les blessures.
- 3Ennuyeux, fatigant
- 4Qui ne tient pas en place, dérange, généralement en parlant d’un enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tannant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le sumac s'emploie dans la proportion de 2 à 3 livres, selon son plus ou moins de force tannante, par chaque peau à coudrer.
L’emploi des substances tannantes a précisément pour objet d’empêcher l’accolement des fibres, de ménager leur indépendance, de leur permettre de glisser les unes sur les autres ; il rend en outre le cuir imputrescible.
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.