tabac

\ta.ba\

/\ta.ba\/ noun

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The verdict

“tabac” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,191
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée du genre botanique Nicotiana de la famille des Solanacées, originaire des Amériques, qui est cultivée pour ses grandes feuilles dont on extrait le tabac à fumer, priser ou à chiquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tabac · tabac · French

tabac · rank #4,191 · 7 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,191
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH suivie

Nearest frequency peer: suivie (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tabac »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tabac » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tabac vs tac
60% similar
tabac vs trac
60% similar
tabac vs tuba
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tabac
PropertyValue
Headwordtabac
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ta.ba\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,191
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tabac »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tabacse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « suivie » (#4,190), « tendances » (#4,192), « stable » (#4,189). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tabac » est au #4,191. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around tabac (IPA \ta.ba\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,191 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tabac, with forms such as "atbac", "taabc", and "tabacc". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "tac", "trac", "tuba", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tabac, spelled T-A-B-A-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plante herbacée du genre botanique Nicotiana de la famille des Solanacées, originaire des Amériques, qui est cultivée pour ses grandes feuilles dont on extrait le tabac à fumer, priser ou à chiquer.
  2. 2
    Préparation obtenue par séchage et légère fermentation des feuilles de cette plante.
  3. 3
    (Avec l’article défini le) Fait de fumer le tabac ; tabagie.
  4. 4
    Couleur brun roux. #9F551E
  5. 5
    Abrégé pour bar-tabac ou bureau de tabac.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tabac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais cette perte a été largement compensée par l’extension des plantations de tabac (…) et par le rendement actuel de l’industrie résinière.
  2. Aujourd'hui, la moitié des communautés amish de Pennsylvanie ne pratiquent plus la culture du tabac pour des raisons morales : est-il concevable de cultiver une plante dangereuse pour la santé de l'homme ?

Synonyms

herbe à Nicotherbe angoumoisenicotianeherbe catherinaireherbe à la reinecigare

This word in other languages

tobacco(English)tabaco(Español)Tabakpflanze(Deutsch)tabaco(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atbac
  • taabc
  • tabacc
  • tabbac
  • tabca
  • tbaac
  • ttabac

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tabac - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

atbac2taabc2tabacc1tabbac1tabca2tbaac2ttabac1
Edit distance from "tabac"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tabac"?
"tabac" is spelled T-A-B-A-C. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.ba\.
What does "tabac" mean?
As a noun, "tabac" means: Plante herbacée du genre botanique Nicotiana de la famille des Solanacées, originaire des Amériques, qui est cultivée pour ses grandes feuilles dont on extrait le tabac à fumer, priser ou à chiquer.
What words are commonly confused with "tabac"?
"tabac" is commonly confused with "tac", "trac", "tuba". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tabac"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tabac" is \ta.ba\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tabac" come from?
"tabac" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tabac", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tissu#4,195trône#4,196world#4,200quête#4,179

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

suivie7 variantsamène7 variantsannuelle7 variantsbains7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list