tampon encreur
\tɑ̃.pɔ̃ ɑ̃.kʁœʁ\
The verdict
“tampon encreur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Sorte de boîte plate en métal ou en plastique renfermant un coussin imprégné d’encre, sur lequel on appuie un timbre gravé pour l’encrer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tampon encreur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pɔ̃ ɑ̃.kʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tampon encreur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tampon encreur is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ̃.pɔ̃ ɑ̃.kʁœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sorte de boîte plate en métal ou en plastique renfermant un coussin imprégné d’encre, sur lequel on appuie un timbre gravé pour l’encrer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tampon encreur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tampon encreur, spelled T-A-M-P-O-N- -E-N-C-R-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de boîte plate en métal ou en plastique renfermant un coussin imprégné d’encre, sur lequel on appuie un timbre gravé pour l’encrer.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-M-P-O-N- -E-N-C-R-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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