tantra
\tɑ̃.tʁa\
The verdict
“tantra” is uncommon French (frequency #67,916 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,916
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Texte hindou ou bouddhiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tantra · tantra · French
tantra · rank #67,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,916
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tantine
Nearest frequency peer: tantine (-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 « tantra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tamanrasset
Tamanrasset
32,088 corpus weight
- Tamatave
Tamatave
32,087 corpus weight
- tantine
tantine
32,086 corpus weight
- tantra
tantra
32,085 corpus weight
- taoïste
taoïste
32,084 corpus weight
- tarlouze
tarlouze
32,083 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tantra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tantra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tantra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tantra is uncommon French at frequency #67,916 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.tʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tantra, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 tantra, spelled T-A-N-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Texte hindou ou bouddhiste.
- 2Religion professée par ces textes, tantrisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tantra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La transmission orale des tantras bouddhiques.
La présence très forte de la figure féminine dans le tantra paraît ainsi effectivement être une réémergence du matriarcat de peuples plus anciens sous la forme des multiples figures de la shakti.
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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