tamiser
\ta.mi.ze\
The verdict
“tamiser” is uncommon French (frequency #94,324 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,324
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Séparer des éléments d’un mélange à l’aide d’un tamis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamiser · tamiser · French
tamiser · rank #94,324 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,324
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tairais
Nearest frequency peer: tairais (-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 « tamiser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tachetés
tachetés
5,679 corpus weight
- tairais
tairais
5,678 corpus weight
- tamiser
tamiser
5,677 corpus weight
- tapissiers
tapissiers
5,676 corpus weight
- Taschen
Taschen
5,675 corpus weight
- taurin
taurin
5,674 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tamiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.mi.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,324 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamiser is uncommon French at frequency #94,324 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.mi.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tamiser, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 tamiser, spelled T-A-M-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Séparer des éléments d’un mélange à l’aide d’un tamis.
- 2Passer à travers les grilles d’un tamis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tamiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Klaus avait tamisé la farine, s’arrêtant toutes les vingt secondes pour désenfariner ses lunettes.
Ces minerais ont encore un inconvénient grave : à cause de leur finesse, ils tamisent facilement, c’est-à-dire qu’ils traversent les charges du haut-fourneau et arrivent jusqu’au creuset sans être réduits.
This word in other languages
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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