tame

\tam\

/\tam\/ verb

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The verdict

“tame” is uncommon French (frequency #83,417 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,417
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de tamer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tame · tame · French

tame · rank #83,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #83,417
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH talmudique

Nearest frequency peer: talmudique (-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 « tame »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tame » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tame
PropertyValue
Headwordtame
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\tam\
Letters4
Frequency rank#83,417
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tame » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tametombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « talmudique » (#83,416), « tada » (#83,415), « tarifa » (#83,419). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tame » est au #83,417. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tame is uncommon French at frequency #83,417 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tame, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tame, spelled T-A-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de tamer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de tamer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de tamer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de tamer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de tamer.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tame"?
"tame" is spelled T-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tam\.
What does "tame" mean?
As a verb, "tame" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de tamer.
How do you pronounce "tame"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tame" is \tam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tame" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tame", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tada#83,415tere#83,428spor#83,395Simo#83,385

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list