tannique
\ta.nik\
The verdict
“tannique” is uncommon French (frequency #58,976 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,976
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au tan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tannique · tannique · French
tannique · rank #58,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,976
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tangent
Nearest frequency peer: tangent (-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 « tannique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tails
tails
41,028 corpus weight
- tamponner
tamponner
41,027 corpus weight
- tangent
tangent
41,026 corpus weight
- tannique
tannique
41,025 corpus weight
- tantale
tantale
41,024 corpus weight
- Tbilissi
Tbilissi
41,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tannique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tannique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.nik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tannique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tannique is uncommon French at frequency #58,976 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tannique, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tannique, spelled T-A-N-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au tan.
- 2Fort en tannin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tannique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À la marge des lésions de prétendue « Gommose » des Citrus de Corse, nous voyons d’abord les filaments de Phytophthora s’insinuer entre les cellules, puis y pousser leurs filaments intra-cellulaires, pendant que, dans les cellules affectées, se développent de nombreuses vacuoles tanniques.
J'opinai du chef tout en remplissant le verre de Dean de ce vin de la Napa Valley si peu tannique qu'il me faisait penser à ces morgons qu'on boit sans vergogne dans le Beaujolais.
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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