tamaris
\ta.ma.ʁis\
The verdict
“tamaris” is uncommon French (frequency #57,631 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,631
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbrisseau à feuilles très petites et à fleurs en épis, qui est répandu dans la région méditerranéenne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamaris · tamaris · French
tamaris · rank #57,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,631
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH talismans
Nearest frequency peer: talismans (-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 « tamaris »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tagada
tagada
42,373 corpus weight
- taleb
taleb
42,372 corpus weight
- talismans
talismans
42,371 corpus weight
- tamaris
tamaris
42,370 corpus weight
- tamerlan
tamerlan
42,369 corpus weight
- tapioca
tapioca
42,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tamaris » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamaris |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ma.ʁis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamaris » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamaris is uncommon French at frequency #57,631 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ma.ʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbrisseau à feuilles très petites et à fleurs en épis, qui est répandu dans la région méditerranéenne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tamaris, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tamaris, spelled T-A-M-A-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Arbrisseau à feuilles très petites et à fleurs en épis, qui est répandu dans la région méditerranéenne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tamaris appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La maison était environnée de lins roses et de tamaris.
Dans la plaine grise volent des mouettes, le vent accorde ses harpes par-dessus les tamaris, d’âcres parfums s’affirment sous les rayons du soleil, et maintenant c’est la mer.
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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