tagada
\ta.ɡa.da\
The verdict
“tagada” is uncommon French (frequency #57,628 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an onomatopoeia. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,628
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée enfantine rappelant le bruit de galop d’un cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tagada · tagada · French
tagada · rank #57,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,628
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Séguier
Nearest frequency peer: Séguier (-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 « tagada »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- syntaxiques
syntaxiques
42,376 corpus weight
- Séguier
Séguier
42,374 corpus weight
- tagada
tagada
42,373 corpus weight
- taleb
taleb
42,372 corpus weight
- talismans
talismans
42,371 corpus weight
- tamaris
tamaris
42,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tagada » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tagada |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \ta.ɡa.da\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tagada » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tagada is uncommon French at frequency #57,628 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anonomatopoeia, transcribed \ta.ɡa.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Onomatopée enfantine rappelant le bruit de galop d’un cheval.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tagada, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tagada, spelled T-A-G-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée enfantine rappelant le bruit de galop d’un cheval.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tagada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois, dès que j’entends le bruit d’un cheval, tagada, tagada, je pense que c’est lui qui arrive, comme au bon vieux temps. Il y a des bruits qui restent dans notre mémoire.
Décriblé enfin, Fred avait grimpé dans un tortillard bondé jusqu’à la gare des Brotteaux, onze heures de tagada.
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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