tambour de jaumière
\tɑ̃.buʁ də ʒo.mjɛʁ\
The verdict
“tambour de jaumière” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Conduit étanche contenant la mèche qui relie le safran du gouvernail à la barre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tambour de jaumière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.buʁ də ʒo.mjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tambour de jaumière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tambour de jaumière is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.buʁ də ʒo.mjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Conduit étanche contenant la mèche qui relie le safran du gouvernail à la barre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tambour de jaumière in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tambour de jaumière, spelled T-A-M-B-O-U-R- -D-E- -J-A-U-M-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conduit étanche contenant la mèche qui relie le safran du gouvernail à la barre.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-M-B-O-U-R- -D-E- -J-A-U-M-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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