Tarn
\taʁn\
The verdict
“Tarn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,491. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,491
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière du sud-ouest de la France, affluent de la Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarn · Tarn · French
Tarn · rank #11,491 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,491
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tank
Nearest frequency peer: tank (-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 « Tarn »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- surcroît
surcroît
88,513 corpus weight
- switch
switch
88,512 corpus weight
- tank
tank
88,511 corpus weight
- Tarn
Tarn
88,510 corpus weight
- Tchad
Tchad
88,509 corpus weight
- tomes
tomes
88,508 corpus weight
What this shows « Tarn » 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 | Tarn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \taʁn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,491 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Tarn »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Tarn (IPA \taʁn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,491 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tarn, with forms such as "atrn", "tanr", and "tarnn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TN", "ton", "tas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Tarn, spelled T-A-R-N.
Definition
- 1Rivière du sud-ouest de la France, affluent de la Garonne.
- 2Département du sud-ouest de la France, faisant partie de la région Occitanie, qui porte le numéro 81.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tarn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vénérable pont sur le Tarn a non seulement de hautes arches en ogive, mais ses piles de briques, entre les les voûtes et au-dessus des avant-becs, sont percées de baies du même style.
Heureux habitants du Tarn et des autres départements français, non seulement nous vivons de plus en plus vieux, mais nous ne voulons pas vieillir, et il devient banal de voir des septuagénaires jogger ou des dames d’âge ultracanonique s’initier au crapahutage à vélo tout terrain.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrn
- tanr
- tarnn
- tarrn
- tran
- ttarn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tarn - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).