tante
\tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“tante” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,194. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,194
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sœur de l’un des deux parents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tante · tante · French
tante · rank #5,194 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,194
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH temporaire
Nearest frequency peer: temporaire (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souhaitent
souhaitent
94,811 corpus weight
- spectateurs
spectateurs
94,810 corpus weight
- sportive
sportive
94,809 corpus weight
- tante
tante
94,807 corpus weight
- temporaire
temporaire
94,806 corpus weight
- this
this
94,805 corpus weight
What this shows « tante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tante (IPA \tɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,194 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tante, with forms such as "atnte", "tanet", and "tannte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TNT", "tte", "tat", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 tante, spelled T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Sœur de l’un des deux parents.
- 2Cousine de l’un des deux parents.
- 3Conjointe d’un oncle ou d'une tante.
- 4Homosexuel efféminé.
- 5Mont-de-piété.
- 6Exploitant d’attraction de foire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand il pousse la porte du Café du Pont, à Vrigne-aux-Bois, la tante est derrière le comptoir. Le café est à elle. C’est elle qui a fait dire qu’il n’avait qu’à venir. Que dans les fonderies, il y avait du travail tant qu’on en voulait. Suffisait d’être courageux.
Jacques, de son pas rapide, traversa l’étroit jardin et entra dans la maison. Là, au milieu de la première pièce, une vaste cuisine où l’on mangeait et où l’on vivait, tante Phasie […] était seule, assise près de la table, sur une chaise de paille, les jambes enveloppées d’un vieux châle. C’était une cousine de son père, une Lantier, qui lui avait servi d…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atnte
- tanet
- tannte
- tantte
- tatne
- tnate
- ttante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tante - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).