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— English words —
  • tan n. A yellowish-brown colour.
  • tan n. A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
  • tan n. The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
  • tan adj. Yellowish-brown.
  • tan adj. Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.
  • tan v. (Transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
  • tan v. (Transitive, stative) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
  • tan v. (Transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
  • tan num. (Dialect, rare) The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and…
  • tan n. An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh.
  • tan n. Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
  • tan n. (Dialectal) A twig or small switch.
  • tan v. (Transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
  • Tan prop.n. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
  • Tan prop.n. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
  • Tan prop.n. Alternative form of Dan.
  • Tan prop.n. A surname from Vietnamese.
  • TAN n. (Engineering) Initialism of total acid number, the measure of a lubricant’s or crude oil’s acidity.
  • TAN n. (Banking) Initialism of transaction authentication number, in electronic banking.
— International convention —
  • tan sym. (Trigonometry) The symbol of the trigonometric function tangent.
  • TAN sym. (International standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Taunton Municipal Airport, which serves Taunton…
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Ainu
    • tan det. (Demonstrative) this.
  • Asturian
    • tán v. Third-person plural present indicative of tar.
  • Breton - Cornish
  • Catalan
    • tan adv. So, such.
    • tan adv. (In comparisons, tan ... com) as ... as.
  • Chuukese
  • Crimean tatar
  • Finnish
    • tän pron. (Colloquial) genitive of tämä.
    • tän pron. (Colloquial) accusative of tämä.
  • Fula
  • Galician
    • tan adv. So, as (in comparisons).
  • Haitian creole
  • Hungarian
    • tan n. Doctrine, lore.
    • tan n. Science of, theory, branch of instruction.
    • tan n. (As a suffix in compounds) -logy, -ology, -graphy (a branch of learning; a study of a particular subject).
    • tan n. (As a prefix in compounds) educational, academic.
    • tán adv. Maybe, perhaps.
    • -tán suff. (Adverb-forming suffix) Added to certain verbs to form an adverb, usually in the sense “on doing something”…
  • Iban
    • tan adj. Resistant (not easily damaged).
    • tan adj. Perseverant.
    • tan adj. Undamaged.
    • tan adj. Invincible.
    • tan adj. Detained.
    • tan v. To arrest; to detain.
    • tan v. To hold on someone.
    • tan v. To stop something/someone.
  • Japanese
    • tan rom. Rōmaji transcription of たん.
    • -tan rom. Rōmaji transcription of たん.
  • Jarawa
  • Javanese
    • tan part. (Common expression of negation).
  • Jingpho
  • Lacandon
  • Livonian
    • tän pron. Dative plural of sinā.
  • Mandarin
    • tan rom. Nonstandard spelling of tān.
    • tan rom. Nonstandard spelling of tán.
    • tan rom. Nonstandard spelling of tǎn.
    • tan rom. Nonstandard spelling of tàn.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倓.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘾.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坛.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墰.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墵.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 壇.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 壜.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 婒.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 弸.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 弹.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 彃.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 惔.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憛.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 曇.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 榃.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 橚.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檀.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沇.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 淡.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 湕.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 潭.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澷.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炊.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 痰.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 癇.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 眈.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 禩.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 罈, 罎.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胃.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 艢.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荥.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蔾.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蕄.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 藫.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蟧.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 覃.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 談.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譚.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 谈.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 谭.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貚.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郯.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醈.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醰.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 錟.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鐔.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 锬.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 镡.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餤.
    • tán rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 驔.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 傝.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 僋.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘆.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 埮.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 探.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 撟.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 歎.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 湠.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 炭.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 碳.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舕.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 賧.
    • tàn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㒎.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 僺.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗿.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坦.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忐.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憳.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 憻.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 毯.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璮.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 禫.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 胃.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 膻.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菼.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 袒, 襢.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 賝.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 贉.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 赑.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醓.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉪.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黮.
    • tǎn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 钼.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啴.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘽.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坍.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 怹.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 抩.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 採.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 摊.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 擹.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 攤.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 橝.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 滩.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 漛.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 灘.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 癱.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 緂.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舑.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舓.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舚.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 譠.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貪.
    • tān rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 贪.
    • táŋ rom. Rare spelling of táng.
    • tàŋ rom. Rare spelling of tàng.
    • tǎŋ rom. Rare spelling of tǎng.
    • tāŋ rom. Rare spelling of tāng.
  • Mang
  • Maquiritari
    • -tan suff. Directs that the command or request expressed by a verb must be executed somewhere else and not at the…
  • Middle irish - Old irish
    • tan n. (Point in) time.
  • Noone
  • Old english
    • tan n. Twig, branch.
  • Old french
    • tan n. Pulped oak bark used in the tanning process (i.e. of tanning leather).
  • Old occitan
    • tan adv. Such; so much; to such and extent.
    • tan adj. Such; so much.
  • Old swedish
  • Pipil
  • Plautdietsch
  • Polish
    • tan n. (Archaic, humorous, usually in the plural) dance.
  • Somali
    • tan det. This (feminine).
  • Sranan tongo
    • tan v. To stay, to reside.
    • tan v. To stay, to remain in a state.
  • Swedish
    • tan v. Obsolete plural form of ta, imperative of ta.
    • tån n. Definite singular of tå.
  • Tagalog
    • Tan prop.n. A surname from Min Nan of Chinese origin.
  • Tatar
    • tañ n. Wonder, surprise.
  • Turkish
    • tan n. Dawn, twilight.
    • Tan prop.n. A female given name.
    • Tan prop.n. A male given name which means "dawn, daybreak".
    • -tan suff. Alternative form of -dan.
  • Vietnamese
    • tan v. To melt.
    • tan v. To dissolve, dissipate.
    • tán n. Canopy (highest foliage and branches of a forest).
    • tán n. Parasol, sunshade.
    • tán v. (Southern Vietnam) to slap.
    • tán v. Flatter, coax.
    • tán v. Grind, crush.
    • tán v. To flirt.
    • tán v. To chat.
    • tàn n. Ash resulting from burning cigarettes, incense or mosquito coils; compare tro (“ash in general”).
    • tàn v. To fade; to wither; to decay; to crumble.
    • tân adj. (Compounds) new.
    • tân adj. (Humorous) virgin.
    • tân pref. Used in the titles of modern serialized East Asian works of fiction to mean "this series is a reboot/remake/reimagining…
    • Tân prop.n. The eighth heavenly stem.
    • Tân prop.n. A unisex given name from Chinese.
    • tắn n. North Central Vietnam form of rắn (“snake”).
    • tấn n. A tonne (1000 kilograms).
    • tấn v. (Only in compounds) to advance; to go forward.
    • tẩn v. (Colloquial) to beat, to hit, to pound.
    • tản v. To be dispersed.
    • tản v. To disperse.
    • tận v. (Literary) to end; to finish; to be exhausted.
    • tận v. To (go) all the way to (a place); to (go) as far as.
  • Volapük
    • tän adv. Then (as a consequence) (indicating an apodosis).
  • Welsh
    • tan prep. Until.
    • tan prep. (Literary) under.
    • tan prep. While.
    • tân n. Fire.
    • tan- pref. Under, lower, infra-, sub-, post-.
  • Wolof
    • tan n. Vulture.
  • Yogad
    • tan adv. More; -er.
  • Yucatec maya
    • t’an v. Obsolete spelling of tʼaan.
  • Yámana
    • tan n. Earth, soil, dust, ground.
  • Zay
    • tan n. Smoke (from a fire).
— English word, defined in German —
  • TAN Abk. Transaction authentication number.
— English word, defined in Dutch —
  • tan bijv. (Kleur) geelbruin.
— English words, defined in French —
  • tan adj. Ocre.
  • tan n. Bronzage, hâle.
  • tan v. Bronzer.
  • tan v. (Habillement) Tanner.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • tan s. Color ocre.
  • tan s. Bronceado.
  • tan adj. Ocre.
  • tan adj. Dicho de la piel, moreno, bronceado.
  • tan v. Broncear.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • tan adj. De cor marrom-amarelada.
  • tan adj. Bronzeado.
  • tan s. Cor marrom-amarelada.
  • tan s. Bronzeado.
  • tan s. Casca de carvalho ou outra árvore da qual se extrai o tanico.
  • tan v. Bronzear.
  • tan v. Curtir pele de animal em tanico para transformar em couro.
  • tan v. (Informal) espancar, bater.
— In German —
  • tan Abk. Tangens.
  • TAN Abk. Finanzwesen, Internet: Transaktionsnummer.
  • TAN Abk. DDR: Technisch begründete Arbeitsnorm.
— In French —
  • tan n.m. (Indénombrable) (Exploitation forestière, Travail du cuir)…
  • tan n.m. Boisson rafraichissante et traditionnelle d’Arménie, au…
— In Spanish —
  • tan adv. Apócope de tanto.
  • tan adv. Empleada para expresar la comparación de adjetivos o adverbios.
  • tan s. Sonido emitido por el tambor u otro instrumento de percusión.
  • tan s. Corteza del encino.
  • tan s. Plancha compuesta de virutas de madera unidas con cola o resina.
359 English words from 229 English definitions

academic accusative acid acidity Added advance adverb airan airport all all␣the␣way Alternative and animal apodosis Archaic areas Armenian arrest artificial as␣a␣result as␣a␣result␣of as␣far␣as ash Asian authentication aviation bamboo banking bark beat branch branches brown burning Canopy Cantonese cardinal cardinal␣number Celtic Central certain Chair change chat Chinese cigarettes Class coax code coils Colloquial colour com command Common compare comparisons compounds consequence contexts Count crude crude␣oil crumble crush Cumbria damaged dan dance dark darkening Dative dawn daybreak decay Definite Demonstrative detain Detained Dialect Dialectal Directs disperse dispersed dissipate dissolve Doctrine doing doogh Dream drink due due␣to dust Earth easily East East␣Asian educational effect eighth electronic else end Engineering especially etc executed exhausted exposure expressed expression extent fade far female feminine fiction finish fire Flatter flirt foliage for forest form formerly forming forward from function general genitive given given␣name graphy Grind ground gun Hanyu Hanyu␣Pinyin Having heavenly heavenly␣stem hide highest hit Hokkien hold hold␣on humorous IATA imperative in␣a␣state incense indicating indicative informal infra- in␣general Initialism instruction intended International into intransitive Invincible kill kilograms Language learning leather light light␣sources Literary logy lore lower lubricant made made␣of male Mandarin Maybe mean means measure melt mimic Min Min␣Nan MLE modern More mosquito mosquito␣coils much Municipal must name Nan Near negation new Nonstandard North North␣Central not number number␣two oak Obsolete obtained of␣a of␣an oil ology Only origin other Parasol particular particularly perhaps Perseverant person picul Pinyin place plural Point post- pound prefix present present␣indicative process Pulped rare reading reboot reimagining remain remake request reside Resistant result resulting Rōmaji Science second sense serialized series serves shoot similar singular sit skin slang slap small Smoke snake soaking soil someone something somewhere somewhere␣else so␣much sources Southern spank speak spelling standards state stative stay stem stop study sub- subject such suffix sun sunlight sunshade surname surprise switch symbol Synonym tan tangent tanner tannic tannic␣acid tanning tar Taunton that the Then theory the␣way Third Third␣person Third-person␣plural this time titles to␣go tonne Tooth total to␣the transaction transcription Transitive tree trigonometric trigonometric␣function Trigonometry twig twilight two Undamaged under unisex Until used usually verb verbs Vietnam Vietnamese virgin Vulture water way way␣to Weather weave which While With wither Wonder work works works␣of␣fiction yellowish yoghurt

21 English words from 29 foreign definitions

animal authentication Bronzer cola Color con cor DDR del Exploitation Informal Internet number ocre para Plancha qual Tanner tanto Transaction Travail

2 foreign words from 229 English definitions

aan sina

57 foreign words from 29 foreign definitions

adjetivos adverbios Apócope Arménie árvore bater begründete Boisson bronceado Broncear Bronzage Bronzeado Bronzear carvalho Casca comparación compuesta Corteza couro cuir Curtir De␣cor de␣la de␣tanto Dicho emitido Empleada encino espancar expresar Finanzwesen forestière geelbruin Habillement hâle Indénombrable instrumento Kleur madera marrom moreno otro outra pele percusión piel por resina Sonido tambor Tangens Technisch traditionnelle Transaktionsnummer transformar unidas virutas

848 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

tana Tana tane TANF tang Tang T'ang Tani tanj TANJ tank Tann Tano tans Tans Tant -tant Tanz. tanah tanas Tanat Tanay tanda Tandy Taney tanga tangi tango Tango tangs Tangs tangy tanha tania Tania Tanis Tanit tanka Tanka tanks tanky tanna Tanna tanod Tanos tanru tansu tansy Tansy tante +798 words

6835 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Itani Otani stand St␣And stane stang Stang stank stann- Stano stans Stans Stant actant artanh Astana astand botana botany butane Catano cetane cutans detank dotant Dutans -dutant extant Istanu Itanic Itanis jet␣ant katana Kitans litany Matane Mutand mutant natant -netant nutant octane octans Octans octant Ohtani optant Patane -pitant ratans +6785 words

634 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Etan stan Stan 'stan -stan stan' 'Stan -Stan Botan cutan Dutan Hotan Kitan octan ratan retan rotan Rutan satan Satan Tatan titan Titan witan Wotan Yutan zitan acetan Anutan Aostan arctan Bantan Bhutan Bootan Bostan Bottan caftan captan Ceutan coltan Cretan dastan deutan Dritan Erhtan fantan fan-tan Fintan Fontan Gaetan +584 words

4 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

nat Nat NAT Nat.

16 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ant Ant ANT -ant an't ant- ant. Ant. a'n't ATN nat Nat NAT Nat. NTA TNA

156 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

AANT aint ain't amn't Anat anat. andt ANDT anet aniṭ anot anta ANTA ante Ante ante- -anth anth. anti anti- ants Antu anty APTN arn't ar'n't ASNT Aten Atin Aton attn aunt bant cant Cant can't Cant. ca'n't Dant Etan etna Etna Fant Gant gnat Gnat hant ha'nt han't ha'n't +106 words

35 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

an An AN -an an' an- A/N a(n) at AT 'at at- A-T A/T na Na NA n/a N/A n.a. N.A. NT n't n/t -n't -'nt ta Ta TA T&A T/A T.A. tn Tn TN

151 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Aan AAN A.A.N. ban Ban BAN can Can CAN Can. dan Dan DAN -dan Dan. ean EAN -ean e.An. fan Fan FAN gan Gan GaN GAN han Han Ian -ian jan Jan Jan. kan Kan Kan. Lan LAN Lan. man Man MAN -man man. Man. nan Nan NaN NAN pan Pan PAN pan- Pan. ran Ran RAN san San SAn SAN -san taa TAA tab Tab tac TAC tad Tad TAd TAD TA'd taf Taf TAF tag TAG tai Tai TAI taj Taj. tak Tak Tal tam TAM tao Tao TAO tap TAP tar Tar TAR tas Tas TAs TAS Tas. TA's T.A.s (+48 words)

17 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

an An AN -an an' an- A/N a(n) ta Ta TA T&A T/A T.A. tn Tn TN

23 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

taan Taan ta'en tahn tain Tain Tann tarn Tarn tawn T-Can Tean than Than tian Tian T-man tran Tran Tsan tuan tyan Tyan


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