taratata
\ta.ʁa.ta.ta\
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
- Taine
Taine
30,534 corpus weight
- Talib
Talib
30,533 corpus weight
- tannins
tannins
30,532 corpus weight
- tapés
tapés
30,531 corpus weight
- taratata
taratata
30,530 corpus weight
- technocratie
technocratie
30,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taratata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taratata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ta.ʁa.ta.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taratata » en français
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
- 1Expression de refus, de dénégation virulente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taratata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vatelin. — Oui ! taratata ! Vous ne saviez rien du tout !
— Taratata… S’il gagne beaucoup, il dépense de même, vous le savez comme moi.
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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