tabellion
\ta.bɛ.ljɔ̃\
The verdict
“tabellion” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Officier public qui, dans les juridictions subalternes et seigneuriales, faisait fonction de notaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tabellion · tabellion · French
tabellion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | tabellion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.bɛ.ljɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tabellion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tabellion is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.bɛ.ljɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tabellion in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tabellion, spelled T-A-B-E-L-L-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Officier public qui, dans les juridictions subalternes et seigneuriales, faisait fonction de notaire.
- 2Documents ou fonds de documents produits par le tabellion.
- 3ou Notaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tabellion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’était rendu tout droit chez l’unique tabellion de l’endroit, lequel s’appelait maître Niquet.
Pardonnez-moi, monsieur l’évêque, dit-elle en riant toujours, mais vous vous exprimez comme un tabellion. Ce n’est pas une déclaration d’amour, cela, c’est un inventaire !
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.