tang

Other forms of tang

plural

tangs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tang

What does tang mean?

tang means "a tart spicy quality". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tang?

tang has 1 syllable: tang. In IPA it is /ˈtæŋ/.

What is another word for tang?

Close synonyms include nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tanginess. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tang a common word?

tang is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tang?

1 word rhymes with tang. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.