Tarentaise
\ta.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\
The verdict
“Tarentaise” is uncommon French (frequency #50,536 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,536
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haute vallée de l’Isère, constituant une des six provinces de la Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarentaise · Tarentaise · French
Tarentaise · rank #50,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,536
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taguer
Nearest frequency peer: taguer (-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 « Tarentaise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- svelte
svelte
49,468 corpus weight
- sénatorial
sénatorial
49,467 corpus weight
- taguer
taguer
49,466 corpus weight
- Tarentaise
Tarentaise
49,465 corpus weight
- TCE
TCE
49,464 corpus weight
- teints
teints
49,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tarentaise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tarentaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ta.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tarentaise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tarentaise is uncommon French at frequency #50,536 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ta.ʁɑ̃.tɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Haute vallée de l’Isère, constituant une des six provinces de la Savoie.".
Tarentaise doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Tarentaise, spelled T-A-R-E-N-T-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Haute vallée de l’Isère, constituant une des six provinces de la Savoie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tarentaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vallée de la Tarentaise.
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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