tamer
\ta.me\
The verdict
“tamer” is uncommon French (frequency #90,240 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,240
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de étamer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamer · tamer · French
tamer · rank #90,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,240
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH targuent
Nearest frequency peer: targuent (+2 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 « tamer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taksim
taksim
9,764 corpus weight
- tamer
tamer
9,761 corpus weight
- targuent
targuent
9,759 corpus weight
- tattoos
tattoos
9,758 corpus weight
- taxidermiste
taxidermiste
9,757 corpus weight
- tchatcher
tchatcher
9,756 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tamer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.me\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #90,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamer is uncommon French at frequency #90,240 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de étamer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tamer, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tamer, spelled T-A-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Variante de étamer.
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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