tabassent
\ta.bas\
The verdict
“tabassent” is uncommon French (frequency #63,397 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,397
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tabasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tabassent · tabassent · French
tabassent · rank #63,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,397
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taboulé
Nearest frequency peer: taboulé (+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 « tabassent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Swinton
Swinton
36,608 corpus weight
- séditieux
séditieux
36,607 corpus weight
- tabassent
tabassent
36,604 corpus weight
- taboulé
taboulé
36,603 corpus weight
- tapaient
tapaient
36,602 corpus weight
- taulier
taulier
36,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tabassent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tabassent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.bas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tabassent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tabassent is uncommon French at frequency #63,397 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.bas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tabassent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tabassent, spelled T-A-B-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tabasser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de tabasser.
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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