tantale
\tɑ̃.tal\
The verdict
“tantale” is uncommon French (frequency #58,977 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,977
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément chimique de numéro atomique 73 et de symbole Ta qui fait partie de la série chimique des métaux de transition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tantale · tantale · French
tantale · rank #58,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,977
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tannique
Nearest frequency peer: tannique (-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 « tantale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- tchatche
tchatche
41,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tantale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tantale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tantale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tantale is uncommon French at frequency #58,977 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tantale in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tantale, spelled T-A-N-T-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Élément chimique de numéro atomique 73 et de symbole Ta qui fait partie de la série chimique des métaux de transition.
- 2Métal pur de cet élément, de couleur gris-bleu, très dur, lourd, ductile, très résistant aux acides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tantale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'ensemble est compilé sur une plaque triangulaire fabriquée en tantale.
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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