tamazight
\ta.ma.ziɡ\
The verdict
“tamazight” is uncommon French (frequency #79,789 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,789
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au tamazight, aux langues berbères.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamazight · tamazight · French
tamazight · rank #79,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,789
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tally
Nearest frequency peer: tally (-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 « tamazight »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taillait
taillait
20,215 corpus weight
- Takumi
Takumi
20,214 corpus weight
- tally
tally
20,213 corpus weight
- tamazight
tamazight
20,212 corpus weight
- tangentes
tangentes
20,210 corpus weight
- tangos
tangos
20,209 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tamazight » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamazight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.ma.ziɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamazight » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamazight is uncommon French at frequency #79,789 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.ma.ziɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au tamazight, aux langues berbères.".
tamazight has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tamazight, spelled T-A-M-A-Z-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Relatif au tamazight, aux langues berbères.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tamazight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans une allocution prononcée à cette occasion, le président du CSLA, Azeddine Mihoubi a indiqué que cette cérémonie constitue un hommage à la mémoire de l’un des piliers de la poésie soufie tamazighte, saluant les efforts déployés par l’association culturelle qui porte le nom du poète, dans la réhabilitation du l’héritage culturel oral.
En 1985, le Guide déclare que la langue tamazight est un « poison ».
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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