tada

\ta.da\

/\ta.da\/ intj

The verdict

“tada” is uncommon French (frequency #83,415 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,415
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Interjection utilisée pour dévoiler une grande surprise.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tada · tada · French

tada · rank #83,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #83,415
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH talmudique

Nearest frequency peer: talmudique (+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 « tada »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tada » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tada
PropertyValue
Headwordtada
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\ta.da\
Letters4
Frequency rank#83,415
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tada » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tadatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « talmudique » (#83,416), « tame » (#83,417), « synthétisée » (#83,412). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tada » est au #83,415. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tada is uncommon French at frequency #83,415 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ta.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Interjection utilisée pour dévoiler une grande surprise.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for tada in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 tada, spelled T-A-D-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Interjection utilisée pour dévoiler une grande surprise.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tada ! Voilà ton cadeau !

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tada"?
"tada" is spelled T-A-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.da\.
What does "tada" mean?
As an interjection, "tada" means: Interjection utilisée pour dévoiler une grande surprise.
How do you pronounce "tada"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tada" is \ta.da\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tada" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tada", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list