Tatarstan
\ta.taʁ.stɑ̃\
The verdict
“Tatarstan” is uncommon French (frequency #92,250 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,250
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - République de la fédération de Russie, située sur le bassin de la Volga, qui tire son nom du peuple tatar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tatarstan · Tatarstan · French
Tatarstan · rank #92,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,250
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taoïstes
Nearest frequency peer: taoïstes (-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 « Tatarstan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tamisage
tamisage
7,753 corpus weight
- taoïstes
taoïstes
7,752 corpus weight
- Tatarstan
Tatarstan
7,751 corpus weight
- tazer
tazer
7,750 corpus weight
- techs
techs
7,748 corpus weight
- tellure
tellure
7,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Tatarstan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tatarstan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ta.taʁ.stɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Tatarstan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Tatarstan is uncommon French at frequency #92,250 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ta.taʁ.stɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "République de la fédération de Russie, située sur le bassin de la Volga, qui tire son nom du peuple tatar.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tatarstan, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Tatarstan, spelled T-A-T-A-R-S-T-A-N.
Definition
- 1République de la fédération de Russie, située sur le bassin de la Volga, qui tire son nom du peuple tatar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Tatarstan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans l’histoire du Tatarstan, la Volga a joué un rôle particulier. — (site web fr.euronews.com, 21 août 2012)
La République du Tatarstan (la terre des Tatars) est située sur une partie d’un ancien territoire beaucoup plus vaste, la Tartarie.
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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