tambouille
\tɑ̃.buj\
The verdict
“tambouille” is uncommon French (frequency #55,631 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,631
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuisine médiocre, nourriture grossièrement préparée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tambouille · tambouille · French
tambouille · rank #55,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,631
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH séropositif
Nearest frequency peer: séropositif (-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 « tambouille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sénégalaises
sénégalaises
44,373 corpus weight
- séropositif
séropositif
44,371 corpus weight
- tambouille
tambouille
44,370 corpus weight
- tamoul
tamoul
44,369 corpus weight
- tannerie
tannerie
44,368 corpus weight
- tanneries
tanneries
44,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tambouille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tambouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.buj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #55,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tambouille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tambouille is uncommon French at frequency #55,631 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.buj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tambouille, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tambouille, spelled T-A-M-B-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Cuisine médiocre, nourriture grossièrement préparée.
- 2Toute cuisine, nourriture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tambouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vais veiller à ce qu’on prépare ma tambouille, afin d’être prêt à repartir dès que ce damné soleil sera un peu plus bas sur l’horizon.
— Tambouille… Ça ne se conserve même pas une nuit… Saloperie…
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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