tabula rasa

/\ta.by.la ʁa.za\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

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tabula rasa is aFrenchnoun. It means: Concept philosophique controversé, notamment par la psychologie évolutionniste, selon lequel l’esprit humain naîtrait vierge et s’imprimerait par la seule expérience. Pronounced \ta.by.la ʁa.za\.

Key facts for tabula rasa
PropertyValue
Headwordtabula rasa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ta.by.la ʁa.za\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

tabula rasa is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tabula rasa is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.by.la ʁa.za\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tabula rasa in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tabula rasa, spelled T-A-B-U-L-A- -R-A-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Concept philosophique controversé, notamment par la psychologie évolutionniste, selon lequel l’esprit humain naîtrait vierge et s’imprimerait par la seule expérience.
  2. 2
    Remise à zéro.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tabula rasa"?
"tabula rasa" is spelled T-A-B-U-L-A- -R-A-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.by.la ʁa.za\.
What does "tabula rasa" mean?
As a noun, "tabula rasa" means: Concept philosophique controversé, notamment par la psychologie évolutionniste, selon lequel l’esprit humain naîtrait vierge et s’imprimerait par la seule expérience.
How do you pronounce "tabula rasa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tabula rasa" is \ta.by.la ʁa.za\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tabula rasa" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.