tantinet
\tɑ̃.ti.nɛ\
The verdict
“tantinet” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,326
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très petite quantité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tantinet · tantinet · French
tantinet · rank #34,326 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,326
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH survey
Nearest frequency peer: survey (-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 « tantinet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- supposent
supposent
65,678 corpus weight
- supérette
supérette
65,677 corpus weight
- survey
survey
65,676 corpus weight
- tantinet
tantinet
65,675 corpus weight
- teuf
teuf
65,674 corpus weight
- texan
texan
65,673 corpus weight
What this shows « tantinet » 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 | tantinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.ti.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tantinet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around tantinet (IPA \tɑ̃.ti.nɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,326 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Très petite quantité.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for tantinet, with forms such as "atntinet", "tanitnet", and "tanntinet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "tartine", "tartines", "tartiner", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tantinet, spelled T-A-N-T-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Très petite quantité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tantinet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ou l’art de mesurer des chouïas multipliés par des tantinets dans le seul but de voir si c’est supérieur à trois fois rien.
Car, ne faisant point ouvrage de femme, qui serait de veiller un tantinet auprès de votre soeur, vous souhaitez de lever la paille et de tourner la meule.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atntinet
- tanitnet
- tanntinet
- tantient
- tantinett
- tantinnet
- tantinte
- tantniet
- tanttinet
- tatninet
- tnatinet
- ttantinet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tantinet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).