Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tanais

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: tanais
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.

name

An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.

Inflected Forms

Tanaïs (alternative)

Questions

What does tanais mean?: The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.

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