tama
\ta.ma\
The verdict
“tama” is uncommon French (frequency #62,667 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,667
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée à l’Ouest du Soudan et l’Est du Tchad par les Tamas. Son code ISO 639-3 est tma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tama · tama · French
tama · rank #62,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,667
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Takieddine
Nearest frequency peer: Takieddine (-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 « tama »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sx
sx
37,339 corpus weight
- syllabique
syllabique
37,338 corpus weight
- Takieddine
Takieddine
37,335 corpus weight
- tama
tama
37,334 corpus weight
- teenage
teenage
37,332 corpus weight
- testateur
testateur
37,329 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tama » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,667 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tama » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tama is uncommon French at frequency #62,667 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue parlée à l’Ouest du Soudan et l’Est du Tchad par les Tamas. Son code ISO 639-3 est tma.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tama in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tama, spelled T-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée à l’Ouest du Soudan et l’Est du Tchad par les Tamas. Son code ISO 639-3 est tma.
This word in other languages
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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