tamerlan
\ta.mɛʁ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“tamerlan” is uncommon French (frequency #57,632 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,632
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme pacifique, qui, faisant partie de quelque milice bourgeoise, essaye de se donner un air guerrier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamerlan · tamerlan · French
tamerlan · rank #57,632 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,632
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tamaris
Nearest frequency peer: tamaris (-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 « tamerlan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taleb
taleb
42,372 corpus weight
- talismans
talismans
42,371 corpus weight
- tamaris
tamaris
42,370 corpus weight
- tamerlan
tamerlan
42,369 corpus weight
- tapioca
tapioca
42,368 corpus weight
- taxant
taxant
42,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tamerlan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamerlan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.mɛʁ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamerlan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamerlan is uncommon French at frequency #57,632 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.mɛʁ.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tamerlan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tamerlan, spelled T-A-M-E-R-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Homme pacifique, qui, faisant partie de quelque milice bourgeoise, essaye de se donner un air guerrier.
- 2Protecteur des arts et des lettres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tamerlan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s'est mis à tailler dans le bois des choses effroyables. Là-dessus, le grand Ferré, le Tamerlan de la critique d'art, s'il vous plait, de s'emballer. En deux chroniques, il révéla un « tempérament » et bâtit une chapelle.
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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