tanné
French, noun
tanné is spelled T-A-N-N-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tanné is a French masculine noun meaning “tenné, a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of tanner. Without its accent, tanne is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does tanné mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetenné, a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown
adjective
- 1
tan or reddish-brown in colour, tenné
- 2
weather-beaten
- 3
exhausted, fatigued
- 4
Quebecfed up, sick of something, exasperated
Ben là, chu vraiment tanné de toutes tes histoires.
verb
- 1
past participle of tanner
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est de couleur à peu près semblable à celle du tan, qui est d’une sorte de brun roux. #A75502 2. Épuisé de fatigue physique. 3. Ennuyé, exaspéré. 4. Voir de tanné.
noun: 1. Petit kyste qui se forme sous la peau.
noun: 1. Partie la moins fréquemment submergée d’un marais maritime, aux sols généralement sursalés, nus ou peu végétalisés, se développant aux dépens d’une mangrove.
noun: 1. Cavité quelconque mais plutôt verticale.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tanné
- tannés plural
- tannée feminine
- tannées feminine plural
- tannes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tanné in French?
tanné appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).