Tamil
\ta.mil\
The verdict
“Tamil” is uncommon French (frequency #54,946 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,946
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Tamoul.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamil · Tamil · French
Tamil · rank #54,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,946
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tacheté
Nearest frequency peer: tacheté (-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 « Tamil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabasco
tabasco
45,058 corpus weight
- tabloïds
tabloïds
45,057 corpus weight
- tacheté
tacheté
45,056 corpus weight
- Tamil
Tamil
45,055 corpus weight
- tapissé
tapissé
45,054 corpus weight
- teasing
teasing
45,053 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tamil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tamil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.mil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tamil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tamil is uncommon French at frequency #54,946 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.mil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Tamoul.".
Tamil has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Tamil, spelled T-A-M-I-L.
Definition
- 1Variante de Tamoul.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tamil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dit même que les Tamils anciens vouaient une véritable vénération aux arbres qu'ils considéraient comme la demeure des esprits: le moindre abattage pouvait alors provoquer la colère d'une divinité et engendrer maladies, disettes ou mauvaises récoltes.
Dans les pays où le bouddhisme est devenu l'idéologie officielle, il s'est souvent empressé de soutenir l'effort de guerre. A l'heure actuelle, par exemple, les bouddhistes de Sri Lanka prônent ouvertement la lutte contre les Tamils indépendantistes. Ce qui est vrai du Zen japonais l'est donc également pour d'autres formes de bouddhisme.
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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