tarin

\ta.ʁɛ̃\

/\ta.ʁɛ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“tarin” is uncommon French (frequency #78,899 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,899
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Moûtiers ou à la Tarentaise, en Savoie (73).

Corpus desk

Index FR-tarin · tarin · French

tarin · rank #78,899 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,899
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tarie

Nearest frequency peer: tarie (-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 « tarin »

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 « tarin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tarin
PropertyValue
Headwordtarin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ta.ʁɛ̃\
Letters5
Frequency rank#78,899
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tarin » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « tarie » (#78,898), « tav » (#78,900), « teckel » (#78,901). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tarin » est au #78,899. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tarin is uncommon French at frequency #78,899 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for tarin in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tarin, spelled T-A-R-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif à Moûtiers ou à la Tarentaise, en Savoie (73).
  2. 2
    Relatif à Theys, commune française située dans le département de l’Isère.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Race bovine tarine.

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 "tarin"?
"tarin" is spelled T-A-R-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.ʁɛ̃\.
What does "tarin" mean?
As an adjective, "tarin" means: Relatif à Moûtiers ou à la Tarentaise, en Savoie (73).
How do you pronounce "tarin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tarin" is \ta.ʁɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tarin" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

tarie#78,898swamp#78,888tonal#78,921spada#78,870

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list