tarmac
\taʁ.mak\
The verdict
“tarmac” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,770
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matériau utilisé à la surface des routes, principalement dans un aéroport.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarmac · tarmac · French
tarmac · rank #44,770 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,770
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tarente
Nearest frequency peer: tarente (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tarmac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Talence
Talence
55,235 corpus weight
- talion
talion
55,234 corpus weight
- tapettes
tapettes
55,233 corpus weight
- tarente
tarente
55,232 corpus weight
- tarmac
tarmac
55,231 corpus weight
- tavernes
tavernes
55,228 corpus weight
What this shows « tarmac » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarmac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁ.mak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tarmac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tarmac (IPA \taʁ.mak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,770 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tarmac, with forms such as "atrmac", "tamrac", and "taramc". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "trac", "tarzan", "tabac", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tarmac, spelled T-A-R-M-A-C.
Definition
- 1Matériau utilisé à la surface des routes, principalement dans un aéroport.
- 2Ensemble des zones de circulation et de stationnement des avions, y compris les parkings, à l’exclusion de la piste d’atterrissage.
- 3Surface d'atterrissage des appareils sur un porte-avions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tarmac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tarmac est un liant à base de goudron et utilisé par une entreprise anglaise pour l’enrobage du laitier des hauts fourneaux.
L’entreprise de génie civil posa également, autour de la maison, un tarmac de macadam gris d’une largeur de dix mètres.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrmac
- tamrac
- taramc
- tarmacc
- tarmca
- tarmmac
- tarrmac
- tramac
- ttarmac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tarmac - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tarmac", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).