tabarnac
\ta.baʁ.nak\
The verdict
“tabarnac” is uncommon French (frequency #71,948 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,948
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Juron manifestant la colère ou l’indignation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tabarnac · tabarnac · French
tabarnac · rank #71,948 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,948
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH séparèrent
Nearest frequency peer: séparèrent (-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 « tabarnac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- symbiotique
symbiotique
28,056 corpus weight
- séparons
séparons
28,055 corpus weight
- séparèrent
séparèrent
28,054 corpus weight
- tabarnac
tabarnac
28,053 corpus weight
- taillandier
taillandier
28,052 corpus weight
- tantrique
tantrique
28,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tabarnac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tabarnac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ta.baʁ.nak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tabarnac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tabarnac is uncommon French at frequency #71,948 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ta.baʁ.nak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tabarnac in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tabarnac, spelled T-A-B-A-R-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Juron manifestant la colère ou l’indignation.
- 2Peut désigner une ou des personnes contre qui on est en colère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tabarnac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– C’est rien que de l’ouvrage comme ane autre, ça… J’ai déjà vu pire… quand j’ai passé sous les billots, y a 12 ans, aux Chutes des Cinq, dans la rivière Mattawin… Y en avait ben un mille de cordé… J’veux donner la chance à un jeune de se sauver, la « jam » avance d’un pied, je saute, et v’lan dans l’rapide. J’sus sorti tout nu en bas d’la chute. C’était…
–Baisse, ça, tabarnac, ou je criss mon camp!
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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