tamponner
\tɑ̃.pɔ.ne\
The verdict
“tamponner” is uncommon French (frequency #58,974 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,974
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boucher avec un tampon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tamponner · tamponner · French
tamponner · rank #58,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,974
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tails
Nearest frequency peer: tails (-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 « tamponner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tachée
tachée
41,030 corpus weight
- taies
taies
41,029 corpus weight
- tails
tails
41,028 corpus weight
- tamponner
tamponner
41,027 corpus weight
- tangent
tangent
41,026 corpus weight
- tannique
tannique
41,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tamponner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tamponner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ̃.pɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tamponner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tamponner is uncommon French at frequency #58,974 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ̃.pɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tamponner in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists 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 tamponner, spelled T-A-M-P-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Boucher avec un tampon.
- 2Passer sur une plaie, y introduire un tampon d’ouate, de gaze.
- 3Enfoncer des chevilles de bois dans un mur pour pouvoir y fixer des clous.
- 4Heurter avec les tampons.
- 5Essuyer doucement à l'aide d'un tampon.
- 6Utiliser une solution tampon.
- 7Heurter.
- 8Approcher une personne dans l’objectif d’en faire une source pour un service de renseignement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tamponner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tamponner une cruche d’huile.
Au loin, les marteaux des calfats tamponnaient des carènes, et une brise lourde apportait la senteur du goudron.
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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