tampax
\tɑ̃.paks\
The verdict
“tampax” is uncommon French (frequency #86,232 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,232
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tampon hygiénique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tampax · tampax · French
tampax · rank #86,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,232
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tagger
Nearest frequency peer: tagger (-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 « tampax »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tacites
tacites
13,772 corpus weight
- tactics
tactics
13,771 corpus weight
- tagger
tagger
13,770 corpus weight
- tampax
tampax
13,769 corpus weight
- tapera
tapera
13,768 corpus weight
- tassent
tassent
13,767 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tampax » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tampax |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.paks\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tampax » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tampax is uncommon French at frequency #86,232 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ̃.paks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
tampax has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tampax, spelled T-A-M-P-A-X.
Definition
- 1Tampon hygiénique.
- 2Filtre cellulosique de cigarette.
- 3Cigarette à bout filtre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tampax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un tiroir, elle découvrit un tampax qui n'était pas à elle. Je ne savais pas qu'il y avait des tampax dans un de mes tiroirs, ni que Maria regardait dans ces tiroirs. Elle se précipita hors de la salle de bains, me tendit le tampax et s'indigna. A qui appartient ce truc ?
Ici on fume sans filtre, sans Tampax comme disent les puristes, la règle est de rechercher le contact direct de la langue sur le tabac noir qui décape les bronches, à condition de cloper vraiment, de ne pas crapoter comme les gonzesses […].
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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