tant mai
\tan(t) ˈmaj\
The verdict
“tant mai” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Plus, employé avec répétition, ou en corrélation avec moins pour indiquer une relation proportionnelle (plus…, plus ; plus…, moins).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tant mai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \tan(t) ˈmaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tant mai” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tant mai is 8 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tan(t) ˈmaj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plus, employé avec répétition, ou en corrélation avec moins pour indiquer une relation proportionnelle (plus…, plus ; plus…, moins).".
No misspelling variants are generated for tant mai in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tant mai, spelled T-A-N-T- -M-A-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plus, employé avec répétition, ou en corrélation avec moins pour indiquer une relation proportionnelle (plus…, plus ; plus…, moins).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “tant mai”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-N-T- -M-A-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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