tajine
\ta.ʒin\
The verdict
“tajine” is uncommon French (frequency #51,171 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,171
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de tagine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tajine · tajine · French
tajine · rank #51,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,171
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH séparez
Nearest frequency peer: séparez (-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 « tajine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Syrte
Syrte
48,834 corpus weight
- sélectionna…
sélectionnant
48,833 corpus weight
- sémiotique
sémiotique
48,832 corpus weight
- séparez
séparez
48,831 corpus weight
- tajine
tajine
48,830 corpus weight
- TDS
TDS
48,826 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tajine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tajine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ʒin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tajine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tajine is uncommon French at frequency #51,171 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ʒin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de tagine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tajine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tajine, spelled T-A-J-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de tagine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tajine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À trop vouloir enfermer notre cuisine dans un tajine, on l’empêche de s’émanciper.
Stan, qu'est-ce qu'il a pu me gonfler avec son tajine ! Et Vince, et sa fixette sur un gros poulet-frites. Moi, toutes ces années, je suis resté québlo sur le grec.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).