tatami
\ta.ta.mi\
The verdict
“tatami” is uncommon French (frequency #67,919 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,919
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Au Japon, tapis épais d’intérieur, traditionnellement fait en paille de riz recouvert de jonc épars tressée, et ayant une taille de 91 cm par 182 cm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tatami · tatami · French
tatami · rank #67,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,919
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tarlouze
Nearest frequency peer: tarlouze (-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 « tatami »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- tendaient
tendaient
32,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tatami » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tatami |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ta.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tatami » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tatami is uncommon French at frequency #67,919 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ta.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tatami has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tatami, spelled T-A-T-A-M-I.
Definition
- 1Au Japon, tapis épais d’intérieur, traditionnellement fait en paille de riz recouvert de jonc épars tressée, et ayant une taille de 91 cm par 182 cm.
- 2Tapis sur lequel on pratique les entraînements ou les combats dans un dojo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tatami appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut toujours se déchausser avant de marcher sur les tatamis.
De là, on entre dans le grand salon, une espèce de hall, au plancher comme toutes les autres pièces, recouvert de tatami, de fines nattes blanches, doublées d’une paille de riz très serrée, d’une épaisseur de sept centimètres, sur lequel le marcher est tout moelleux.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).