tambourin
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#51,773
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
tambourin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de tambour moins large et plus long que le tambour ordinaire, sur lequel on bat avec une seule baguette et qu’on accompagne ordinairement avec une petite flûte, pour faire danser. Pronounced \tɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tambourin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,773 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tambourin is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.bu.ʁɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,773 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tambourin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 tambourin, spelled T-A-M-B-O-U-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de tambour moins large et plus long que le tambour ordinaire, sur lequel on bat avec une seule baguette et qu’on accompagne ordinairement avec une petite flûte, pour faire danser.
- 2Sorte de petit tambour qui sert à lancer et à renvoyer une balle et qui est formé d’un cercle haut seulement de quelques centimètres et tendu de peau ou de toile d’un seul côté.
- 3Jeu de balle au tambourin, sport collectif impliquant deux équipes de cinq joueurs (ou deux équipes de trois joueurs, variante).
- 4Sorte de chapeau, proche du bibi ou de la toque, en forme de cylindre aplati.
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Frequency rank: #51,773 in French
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