tâtonnement
\ta.tɔn.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“tâtonnement” is uncommon French (frequency #92,296 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,296
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de tâtonner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tatonnement · tâtonnement · French
tâtonnement · rank #92,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,296
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH typée
Nearest frequency peer: typée (-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 « tâtonnement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tug
tug
7,709 corpus weight
- Turckheim
Turckheim
7,707 corpus weight
- typée
typée
7,706 corpus weight
- tâtonnement
tâtonnement
7,705 corpus weight
- tégument
tégument
7,704 corpus weight
- unidimensio…
unidimensionnel
7,701 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tâtonnement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tâtonnement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.tɔn.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #92,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tâtonnement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tâtonnement is uncommon French at frequency #92,296 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.tɔn.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de tâtonner.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tâtonnement, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tâtonnement, spelled T-Â-T-O-N-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de tâtonner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tâtonnement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], on peut se convaincre que la détermination du meilleur alliage ne se fit pas sans essais nombreux ; la chimie, peu avancée, procédait par tâtonnements, et cette méthode était aussi longue que coûteuse.
Avons-nous besoin de dire que la disposition de ces instruments a été l’objet de bien des tâtonnements et de multiples perfectionnements avant d’atteindre leur état actuel que nous regardons comme définitif.
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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