Tamar
The verdict
“Tamar” is uncommon French (frequency #81,618 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,618
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Héroïne biblique, épouse et veuve tour à tour des deux premiers fils de Juda, Er et Onan, elle demeure sans progéniture d'eux et use d'un subterfuge pour s'unir à Juda qui refuse de lui donner son ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamar · Tamar · French
Tamar · rank #81,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,618
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Talma
Nearest frequency peer: Talma (-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 « Tamar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabassés
tabassés
18,386 corpus weight
- Talma
Talma
18,384 corpus weight
- Tamar
Tamar
18,383 corpus weight
- Tami
Tami
18,382 corpus weight
- tapia
tapia
18,381 corpus weight
- tapotant
tapotant
18,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tamar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tamar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tamar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tamar is uncommon French at frequency #81,618 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Héroïne biblique, épouse et veuve tour à tour des deux premiers fils de Juda, Er et Onan, elle demeure sans progéniture d'eux et use d'un subterfuge pour s'unir à Juda qui refuse de lui donner son ...".
Tamar has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Tamar, spelled T-A-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Héroïne biblique, épouse et veuve tour à tour des deux premiers fils de Juda, Er et Onan, elle demeure sans progéniture d'eux et use d'un subterfuge pour s'unir à Juda qui refuse de lui donner son troisième fils en mariage. De cette union naîtront les jumeaux Zerah et Perets, ancêtre du roi David.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tamar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juda prit pour Er, son premier-né, une femme nommée Tamar.
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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