thane
\tan\
The verdict
“thane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre correspondant à celui de gentilhomme campagnard, dans l’Angleterre médiévale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thane · thane · French
thane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « thane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
thane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre correspondant à celui de gentilhomme campagnard, dans l’Angleterre médiévale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for thane in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is thane, spelled T-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Titre correspondant à celui de gentilhomme campagnard, dans l’Angleterre médiévale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le thane de Cawdor vit, gentilhomme prospère ; et, quant à être roi, cela n’est pas plus dans l’horizon de ma croyance que d’être thane de Cawdor.
Une de ces chaises était occupée en ce moment par Cédric le Saxon, qui, bien qu’il n’eût que le nom de thane ou de franklin, comme l’appelaient les Normands, éprouvait du retard de son souper une impatience qui eût fait honneur à un bailli des temps anciens ou modernes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.