tartarin
\taʁ.ta.ʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“tartarin” is uncommon French (frequency #97,475 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,475
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant du babouin hamadryas
Corpus desk
Index FR-tartarin · tartarin · French
tartarin · rank #97,475 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,475
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tards
Nearest frequency peer: tards (-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 « tartarin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taisons
taisons
2,530 corpus weight
- taloche
taloche
2,529 corpus weight
- tards
tards
2,527 corpus weight
- tartarin
tartarin
2,526 corpus weight
- terras
terras
2,524 corpus weight
- terrils
terrils
2,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tartarin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tartarin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁ.ta.ʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,475 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tartarin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tartarin is uncommon French at frequency #97,475 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \taʁ.ta.ʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tartarin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 tartarin, spelled T-A-R-T-A-R-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom courant du babouin hamadryas
- 2Un des noms vernaculaires du martin-pêcheur d'Europe (Alcedo atthis).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tartarin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a peu d'oiseaux à qui l'on ait donné autant de noms qu'à celui-ci: on l'a nommé alcyon, tartarin, oiseau de glace, oiseau de St. Martin, pêcheur du Roi, drapier ou artre, monnier, pivert d'eau, pêche-veron, merle bleu & d'eau ou merlet-pêcheret, virevent ou le puant des matelots.
Synonyms
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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