tarlouze
\taʁ.luz\
The verdict
“tarlouze” is uncommon French (frequency #67,918 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,918
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne manquant de force, de courage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarlouze · tarlouze · French
tarlouze · rank #67,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,918
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taoïste
Nearest frequency peer: taoïste (-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 « tarlouze »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tantine
tantine
32,086 corpus weight
- tantra
tantra
32,085 corpus weight
- taoïste
taoïste
32,084 corpus weight
- tarlouze
tarlouze
32,083 corpus weight
- tatami
tatami
32,082 corpus weight
- teens
teens
32,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tarlouze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarlouze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁ.luz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tarlouze » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tarlouze is uncommon French at frequency #67,918 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \taʁ.luz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tarlouze 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tarlouze, spelled T-A-R-L-O-U-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Personne manquant de force, de courage.
- 2Homosexuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tarlouze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le témoignage de Sam permet de prendre la mesure de la façon dont l’insulte homophobe procède davantage d'une police du genre que d'une police sexuelle : – Un vrai mec, c'est pas une tarlouze, quoi. C'est quelqu'un qui sait comment se comporter en situation d'urgence. Il sait prendre des décisions et ne se laisse pas dominer par ses émotions contrairement…
Il est tatoué jusque dans le cou et aux poignets, et pas les tatouages de tarlouzes que les gamines portent aujourd'hui.
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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