taratata

\ta.ʁa.ta.ta\

/\ta.ʁa.ta.ta\/ intj

The verdict

“taratata” is uncommon French (frequency #69,471 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,471
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expression de refus, de dénégation virulente.

Corpus desk

Index FR-taratata · taratata · French

taratata · rank #69,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,471
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tapés

Nearest frequency peer: tapés (-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 « taratata »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taratata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for taratata
PropertyValue
Headwordtaratata
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\ta.ʁa.ta.ta\
Letters8
Frequency rank#69,471
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « taratata » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).taratatatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « tapés » (#69,470), « tannins » (#69,469), « technocratie » (#69,473). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « taratata » est au #69,471. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

taratata is uncommon French at frequency #69,471 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \ta.ʁa.ta.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expression de refus, de dénégation virulente.".

Zero misspellings are on record for taratata in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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. The correct French form is taratata, spelled T-A-R-A-T-A-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Expression de refus, de dénégation virulente.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how taratata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vatelin. — Oui ! taratata ! Vous ne saviez rien du tout !
  2. — Taratata… S’il gagne beaucoup, il dépense de même, vous le savez comme moi.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "taratata"?
"taratata" is spelled T-A-R-A-T-A-T-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.ʁa.ta.ta\.
What does "taratata" mean?
As an interjection, "taratata" means: Expression de refus, de dénégation virulente.
How do you pronounce "taratata"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "taratata" is \ta.ʁa.ta.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "taratata", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list