tabasco
\ta.bas.ko\
The verdict
“tabasco” is uncommon French (frequency #54,943 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,943
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sauce pimentée de marque déposée, relativement liquide, à base de piments rouges fermentés en tonneaux, de vinaigre et de sel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tabasco · tabasco · French
tabasco · rank #54,943 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,943
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tabloïds
Nearest frequency peer: tabloïds (+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 « tabasco »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- suscités
suscités
45,062 corpus weight
- Sylviane
Sylviane
45,061 corpus weight
- tabasco
tabasco
45,058 corpus weight
- tabloïds
tabloïds
45,057 corpus weight
- tacheté
tacheté
45,056 corpus weight
- Tamil
Tamil
45,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tabasco » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tabasco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.bas.ko\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tabasco » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tabasco is uncommon French at frequency #54,943 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.bas.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sauce pimentée de marque déposée, relativement liquide, à base de piments rouges fermentés en tonneaux, de vinaigre et de sel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tabasco in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tabasco, spelled T-A-B-A-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Sauce pimentée de marque déposée, relativement liquide, à base de piments rouges fermentés en tonneaux, de vinaigre et de sel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tabasco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tabasco est fabriqué en Louisiane.
J'aime la goût du tabasco sur mes lèvres. J'aime sentir la pulsation de mon cœur dans mes lèvres alors qu'elles gonflent.
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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