tintamarre
\tɛ̃.ta.maʁ\
The verdict
“tintamarre” is uncommon French (frequency #61,947 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,947
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grand bruit discordant, ensemble peu harmonieux de sons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tintamarre · tintamarre · French
tintamarre · rank #61,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,947
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tierra
Nearest frequency peer: tierra (-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 « tintamarre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- théorisation
théorisation
38,057 corpus weight
- tick
tick
38,056 corpus weight
- tierra
tierra
38,055 corpus weight
- tintamarre
tintamarre
38,054 corpus weight
- tonnelier
tonnelier
38,053 corpus weight
- tourbière
tourbière
38,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tintamarre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tintamarre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɛ̃.ta.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tintamarre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tintamarre is uncommon French at frequency #61,947 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɛ̃.ta.maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tintamarre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tintamarre, spelled T-I-N-T-A-M-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Grand bruit discordant, ensemble peu harmonieux de sons.
- 2Confusion bruyante pas forcément déplaisante à entendre.
- 3Vive réaction d’un groupe, d’un public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tintamarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quel tintamarre est-ce que j’entends ?
Au moment où le boulevard obliquait vers la droite, un tintamarre de bronze tomba sur nos têtes : au bord du toit – qui s’élevait à une hauteur prodigieuse – dans une sorte de petite maison qui avait un fronton triangulaire, je vis un cadran de pendule aussi grand qu’une roue de charrette.
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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