tatou à neuf bandes
\ta.tu a nœf bɑ̃d\
The verdict
“tatou à neuf bandes” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tatou de la sous-famille des dasypodinés dont l’aire de répartition s’étend du Sud-Est des États-Unis au nord jusqu’à l'Uruguay au sud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tatou à neuf bandes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.tu a nœf bɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tatou à neuf bandes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tatou à neuf bandes is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.tu a nœf bɑ̃d\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tatou de la sous-famille des dasypodinés dont l’aire de répartition s’étend du Sud-Est des États-Unis au nord jusqu’à l'Uruguay au sud.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tatou à neuf bandes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tatou à neuf bandes, spelled T-A-T-O-U- -À- -N-E-U-F- -B-A-N-D-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tatou de la sous-famille des dasypodinés dont l’aire de répartition s’étend du Sud-Est des États-Unis au nord jusqu’à l'Uruguay au sud.
Synonyms
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-T-O-U- -À- -N-E-U-F- -B-A-N-D-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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