tarare
\ta.ʁaʁ\
The verdict
“tarare” is uncommon French (frequency #61,931 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,931
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil, sorte de ventilateur, qui sert à nettoyer le grain des balles et la menue paille, après le battage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarare · tarare · French
tarare · rank #61,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,931
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tamouls
Nearest frequency peer: tamouls (-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 « tarare »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- syntagme
syntagme
38,074 corpus weight
- synthétiseu…
synthétiseurs
38,072 corpus weight
- tamouls
tamouls
38,071 corpus weight
- tarare
tarare
38,070 corpus weight
- Tassin
Tassin
38,069 corpus weight
- TCA
TCA
38,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tarare » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ʁaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tarare » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tarare is uncommon French at frequency #61,931 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ʁaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil, sorte de ventilateur, qui sert à nettoyer le grain des balles et la menue paille, après le battage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tarare, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tarare, spelled T-A-R-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil, sorte de ventilateur, qui sert à nettoyer le grain des balles et la menue paille, après le battage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tarare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ah ! le blé à Marigrate et vingt tarares à vous pouffer du poussier dans la figure ; la batteuse qui mange ses bottelées à pleine gueule, et se démener dans cette odeur de paille, de sueur et de pain !
[…] eux, ils n’auront pas cette peine-là : ils ont acheté un tarare. Avec l’argent des fesses, bien entendu.
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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