tramontane
\tʁa.mɔ̃.tan\
The verdict
“tramontane” is uncommon French (frequency #82,540 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,540
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vent d'origine nord-nord-ouest qui souffle dans le sud-ouest de la France, entre les Pyrénées et le Massif central, en direction du golfe du Lion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tramontane · tramontane · French
tramontane · rank #82,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,540
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH traduisons
Nearest frequency peer: traduisons (-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 « tramontane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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17,463 corpus weight
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traduisons
17,462 corpus weight
- tramontane
tramontane
17,461 corpus weight
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transmettons
17,460 corpus weight
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17,459 corpus weight
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17,458 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tramontane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tramontane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tʁa.mɔ̃.tan\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tramontane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tramontane is uncommon French at frequency #82,540 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tʁa.mɔ̃.tan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tramontane in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tramontane, spelled T-R-A-M-O-N-T-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Vent d'origine nord-nord-ouest qui souffle dans le sud-ouest de la France, entre les Pyrénées et le Massif central, en direction du golfe du Lion.
- 2Côté du nord.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tramontane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tramontane se leva pour de bon.
Assis sur le parapet du vieux pont, je passais une heure ou deux à regarder cette route sauvage qui conduisait vers les forêts, les combes et les plateaux que tourmente la tramontane.
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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