Tamar

name

The verdict

“Tamar” is uncommon French (frequency #81,618 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,618
frequency rank, French
164,488
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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 ...

Key facts for Tamar
PropertyValue
HeadwordTamar
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#81,618
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Tamar” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Tamar lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Tamar is uncommon French at frequency #81,618 among 164,488 “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

  1. 1
    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 troisième fils en mariage. De cette union naîtront les jumeaux Zerah et Perets, ancêtre du roi David.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tamar"?
"Tamar" is spelled T-A-M-A-R.
What does "Tamar" mean?
As a proper noun, "Tamar" means: 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 ...
What language does "Tamar" come from?
"Tamar" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “Tamar”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is T-A-M-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list