tantouze
\tɑ̃.tuz\
The verdict
“tantouze” is uncommon French (frequency #96,434 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,434
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme efféminé, généralement homosexuel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tantouze · tantouze · French
tantouze · rank #96,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,434
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taulards
Nearest frequency peer: taulards (+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 « tantouze »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- séleucide
séleucide
3,571 corpus weight
- tallis
tallis
3,569 corpus weight
- tantouze
tantouze
3,567 corpus weight
- taulards
taulards
3,566 corpus weight
- tees
tees
3,565 corpus weight
- tempura
tempura
3,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tantouze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tantouze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tuz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #96,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tantouze » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tantouze is uncommon French at frequency #96,434 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.tuz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tantouze in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tantouze, spelled T-A-N-T-O-U-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Homme efféminé, généralement homosexuel.
- 2Sodomite, homosexuel passif. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème)
- 3Couard, pleutre, pleurnichard, etc. avec ou sans référence explicite aux préférences sexuelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tantouze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est pas la peine d'avoir vingt ans et d'avoir foutu le camp des États-Unis pour se laisser faire par une tantouse en Suisse plus puissant pays du monde n'y était pas arrivé.
Une tantouze ! Le pleurnichard s'était courbé sur son lit et agrippait la veste du confident. Il pleurait vraiment, tout compte fait.
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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