tadam
The verdict
“tadam” is uncommon French (frequency #95,374 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,374
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de tada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tadam · tadam · French
tadam · rank #95,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,374
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tabernacles
Nearest frequency peer: tabernacles (-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 « tadam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sémillant
sémillant
4,630 corpus weight
- sévillan
sévillan
4,629 corpus weight
- tabernacles
tabernacles
4,628 corpus weight
- tadam
tadam
4,627 corpus weight
- Tadeusz
Tadeusz
4,626 corpus weight
- taisait
taisait
4,624 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tadam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tadam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tadam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tadam is uncommon French at frequency #95,374 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tadam in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is tadam, spelled T-A-D-A-M.
Definition
- 1Variante de tada.
- 2Bruit que fait un train roulant sur des rails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tadam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tadam ! Voilà tes cadeaux !
Le moteur a déjà décéléré, et le ta-dam-ta-dam bringuebalant s’est converti en pom-pom-pom régulier, finissant.
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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