Tarnac
The verdict
“Tarnac” is uncommon French (frequency #74,418 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,418
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Corrèze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarnac · Tarnac · French
Tarnac · rank #74,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,418
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tartelette
Nearest frequency peer: tartelette (+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 « Tarnac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- synaptique
synaptique
25,587 corpus weight
- sécateur
sécateur
25,586 corpus weight
- Ségovie
Ségovie
25,585 corpus weight
- Tarnac
Tarnac
25,583 corpus weight
- tartelette
tartelette
25,582 corpus weight
- tempi
tempi
25,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tarnac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tarnac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tarnac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tarnac is uncommon French at frequency #74,418 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Corrèze.".
Tarnac doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Tarnac, spelled T-A-R-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Corrèze.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tarnac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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