tano
\ˈtãː.no\
The verdict
“tano” is uncommon French (frequency #82,511 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,511
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe tanañ/taniñ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tano · tano · French
tano · rank #82,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,511
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tamponneuses
Nearest frequency peer: tamponneuses (-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 « tano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tallon
Tallon
17,493 corpus weight
- talonné
talonné
17,492 corpus weight
- tamponneuses
tamponneuses
17,491 corpus weight
- tano
tano
17,490 corpus weight
- tanzanien
tanzanien
17,489 corpus weight
- tapageur
tapageur
17,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtãː.no\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tano is uncommon French at frequency #82,511 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtãː.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe tanañ/taniñ.".
tano 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tano, spelled T-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du futur de l’indicatif du verbe tanañ/taniñ.
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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