Thann
\tan\
The verdict
“Thann” is uncommon French (frequency #56,974 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,974
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-thann · Thann · French
Thann · rank #56,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,974
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tet
Nearest frequency peer: tet (-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 « Thann »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tent
tent
43,030 corpus weight
- tenture
tenture
43,029 corpus weight
- tet
tet
43,028 corpus weight
- Thann
Thann
43,027 corpus weight
- thin
thin
43,026 corpus weight
- Thiriez
Thiriez
43,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Thann » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thann |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Thann » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Thann is uncommon French at frequency #56,974 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Thann in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Thann, spelled T-H-A-N-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Thann appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soudain, devant nous, au seuil des montagnes, apparaît une ville. C’est si nettement une ville, la ville des écriteaux d’école, mi en plaine, mi en montagne, que nous doutons d’y pénétrer. Au-dessus d’elle, un château-fort, les tours encore presque intactes, mais renversées horizontalement, comme dans les mirages qui n’ont pu tourner tout-à-fait. Jamais l…
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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