targum

/\taʁ.ɡɔm\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

targum is aFrenchnoun. It means: Traduction de la Bible hébraïque en araméen ^([1]), texte hébreu de la Torah accompagné de commentaires en araméen ^([2]), langue qui s'était substituée à l'hébreu pendant la captivité des Juifs à ... Pronounced \taʁ.ɡɔm\.

Key facts for targum
PropertyValue
Headwordtargum
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\taʁ.ɡɔm\
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

targum is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for targum is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taʁ.ɡɔm\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Traduction de la Bible hébraïque en araméen ^([1]), texte hébreu de la Torah accompagné de commentaires en araméen ^([2]), langue qui s'était substituée à l'hébreu pendant la captivité des Juifs à ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for targum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is targum, spelled T-A-R-G-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Traduction de la Bible hébraïque en araméen ^([1]), texte hébreu de la Torah accompagné de commentaires en araméen ^([2]), langue qui s'était substituée à l'hébreu pendant la captivité des Juifs à Babylone.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "targum"?
"targum" is spelled T-A-R-G-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \taʁ.ɡɔm\.
What does "targum" mean?
As a noun, "targum" means: Traduction de la Bible hébraïque en araméen ^([1]), texte hébreu de la Torah accompagné de commentaires en araméen ^([2]), langue qui s'était substituée à l'hébreu pendant la captivité des Juifs à ...
How do you pronounce "targum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "targum" is \taʁ.ɡɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "targum" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.