Tiananmen
\tja.nan.mɛn\
The verdict
“Tiananmen” is uncommon French (frequency #58,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,297
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porte monumentale de l’avenue qui constitue l’entrée sud de la Cité impériale, monument symbolique de la Chine et de Pékin, au nord de la place qui porte son nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tiananmen · Tiananmen · French
Tiananmen · rank #58,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,297
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH thirty
Nearest frequency peer: thirty (-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 « Tiananmen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- thanh
thanh
41,706 corpus weight
- thirty
thirty
41,705 corpus weight
- Tiananmen
Tiananmen
41,704 corpus weight
- tirole
tirole
41,703 corpus weight
- tissages
tissages
41,702 corpus weight
- todos
todos
41,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tiananmen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tiananmen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tja.nan.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tiananmen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tiananmen is uncommon French at frequency #58,297 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tja.nan.mɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Tiananmen in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Tiananmen, spelled T-I-A-N-A-N-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Porte monumentale de l’avenue qui constitue l’entrée sud de la Cité impériale, monument symbolique de la Chine et de Pékin, au nord de la place qui porte son nom.
- 2Place sur laquelle se trouve cette porte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tiananmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après les discours officiels prononcés depuis le célèbre balcon de Tiananmen, traduits aussitôt en arabe pour les ambassadeurs et leurs épouses, vint le tour du peuple d’exprimer sa solidarité.
L’ordre régnait mercredi 4 juin sur la place Tiananmen, quadrillée par des forces de l’ordre déployées pour empêcher toute tentative d’évocation du vingt-cinquième anniversaire de l’écrasement du « printemps de Pékin », le 4 juin 1989.
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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