tannerie
\tan.ʁi\
The verdict
“tannerie” is uncommon French (frequency #55,633 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,633
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Endroit où l’on tanne les peaux principalement de bovins ou d’équidés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tannerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tan.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tannerie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tannerie is uncommon French at frequency #55,633 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tan.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tannerie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 tannerie, spelled T-A-N-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Endroit où l’on tanne les peaux principalement de bovins ou d’équidés.
- 2Tannage, industrie du tannage.
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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Using “tannerie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-N-N-E-R-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tan.ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.