tamier
\ta.mje\
The verdict
“tamier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante grimpante à baies rouges, à discrètes fleurs verdâtres, à racines tubéreuses et à feuilles cordiformes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamier · tamier · French
tamier · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.mje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.mje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante grimpante à baies rouges, à discrètes fleurs verdâtres, à racines tubéreuses et à feuilles cordiformes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tamier, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tamier, spelled T-A-M-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Plante grimpante à baies rouges, à discrètes fleurs verdâtres, à racines tubéreuses et à feuilles cordiformes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tamier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le langage populaire, le tamier est l’herbe-aux-femmes-battues. C’est que son rhizome épais et charnu, possède la propriété d’effacer les « bleus » rien qu’en le frottant dessus.
L’épais rhizome noir et charnu du tamier, dont l’intérieur est blanc, contient des cristaux d’oxalate de calcium, ce qui le rend irritant, non dépourvu de danger quant à son utilisation.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.