tabard
\ta.baʁ\
The verdict
“tabard” is uncommon French (frequency #91,217 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,217
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vêtement du dessus médiéval fait d'une courte veste aux manches en forme d'ailerons, enfilé par-dessus l'armure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tabard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.baʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tabard” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tabard is uncommon French at frequency #91,217 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.baʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tabard in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tabard, spelled T-A-B-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Vêtement du dessus médiéval fait d'une courte veste aux manches en forme d'ailerons, enfilé par-dessus l'armure.
- 2Dalmatique du héraut. Il est généralement brodé aux armoiries de l’office ou employeur du héraut. Le vêtement présente quatre surfaces (face, dos et sur chacun des bras) sur lesquelles les armoiries sont reproduites, permettant à quiconque de les voir quelle que soit sa position par rapport au héraut.
This word in other languages
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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Using “tabard”
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-B-A-R-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ta.baʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.