tannins
\ta.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“tannins” is uncommon French (frequency #69,469 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,469
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tannin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tannins · tannins · French
tannins · rank #69,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,469
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Talib
Nearest frequency peer: Talib (-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 « tannins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taffetas
taffetas
30,535 corpus weight
- Taine
Taine
30,534 corpus weight
- Talib
Talib
30,533 corpus weight
- tannins
tannins
30,532 corpus weight
- tapés
tapés
30,531 corpus weight
- taratata
taratata
30,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tannins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tannins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tannins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tannins is uncommon French at frequency #69,469 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tannin.".
tannins has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tannins, spelled T-A-N-N-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de tannin.
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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