tabard
\ta.baʁ\
The verdict
“tabard” is uncommon French (frequency #91,217 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,217
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtement du dessus médiéval fait d'une courte veste aux manches en forme d'ailerons, enfilé par-dessus l'armure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tabard · tabard · French
tabard · rank #91,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,217
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tabatière
Nearest frequency peer: tabatière (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tabard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sweetheart
sweetheart
8,790 corpus weight
- tabard
tabard
8,784 corpus weight
- tabatière
tabatière
8,783 corpus weight
- tadjik
tadjik
8,782 corpus weight
- tallien
tallien
8,781 corpus weight
- teh
teh
8,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tabard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « tabard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tabard is uncommon French at frequency #91,217 among 3,703 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tabard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais ce qui donne à la procession un caractère tout particulier, c’est le héraut d’armes de la cité de Londres, vêtu comme au moyen âge, avec un tabard historié du blason d’Angleterre ; ce sont des chevaliers couverts de pied en cap d’armures d’or et d’acier, suivis de leurs pages portant la lance et l’écu, qui marchent isolés, de distance en distance, en…
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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