tanneur
\ta.nœʁ\
The verdict
“tanneur” is uncommon French (frequency #71,114 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,114
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui dont le métier est de tanner des cuirs, de vendre des cuirs tannés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tanneur · tanneur · French
tanneur · rank #71,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,114
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapissent
Nearest frequency peer: tapissent (+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 « tanneur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- T7
T7
28,893 corpus weight
- tablée
tablée
28,892 corpus weight
- taggé
taggé
28,891 corpus weight
- tairai
tairai
28,890 corpus weight
- tanneur
tanneur
28,887 corpus weight
- tapissent
tapissent
28,886 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tanneur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tanneur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tanneur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tanneur is uncommon French at frequency #71,114 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui dont le métier est de tanner des cuirs, de vendre des cuirs tannés.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tanneur, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tanneur, spelled T-A-N-N-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui dont le métier est de tanner des cuirs, de vendre des cuirs tannés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tanneur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cinq métiers de la bonne ville de Paris sont les tanneurs, les mégissiers, les baudroyeurs, les boursiers et les sueurs.
Une des légendes raconte que le Père Fouettard est né à Metz en 1552, lors du siège de la ville par les troupes de Charles Quint. Pour donner du courage aux habitants assiégés, la corporation des tanneurs invente un personnage grotesque, armé d’un fouet, qui poursuit jouvencelles et damoiseaux. L’année suivante, Metz est libérée. Le personnage au fouet es…
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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