tabarinade
\ta.ba.ʁi.nad\
The verdict
“tabarinade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouffonnerie, grosse farce, telle que celles qui firent la réputation de Tabarin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tabarinade · tabarinade · French
tabarinade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tabarinade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ba.ʁi.nad\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tabarinade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ba.ʁi.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouffonnerie, grosse farce, telle que celles qui firent la réputation de Tabarin.".
tabarinade has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tabarinade, spelled T-A-B-A-R-I-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Bouffonnerie, grosse farce, telle que celles qui firent la réputation de Tabarin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tabarinade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les disciplines de la scène contrarièrent beaucoup le génie de ces artistes et jamais ils ne surent recréer les verbeuses tabarinades de la salle de douches.
Molière n’aurait pas été Molière s’il n’y avait eu les tabarinades et les farceurs des places publiques, de grands personnages de comédie connus de tous, dont il s’est servi pour composer ses œuvres, et la Comédie-Italienne ; que dans la période qui a précédé Shakespeare, les théâtres fourmillaient en Angleterre, et que l’on représentait des œuvres étince…
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.