Taille
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,341
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
Taille is aGermannoun. It means: die schmalste Stelle des menschlichen Rumpfes zwischen Brustkorb (unterer Rippenbogen) und Hüfte Pronounced [ˈtaljə]. Often confused with Till and tale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtaljə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Taille is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtaljə]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,341 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Taille, with forms such as "atille", "taile", and "tailel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Till", "tale", "tall", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 German form is Taille, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die schmalste Stelle des menschlichen Rumpfes zwischen Brustkorb (unterer Rippenbogen) und Hüfte
- 2Umfang der unter [1] beschriebenen Körperstelle
- 3Teil eines Kleidungsstücks, der die unter [1] beschriebene Körperstelle bedeckt
- 4(auf Stäbchen gearbeitetes) Oberteil eines (zweiteiligen) Kleides, das eng anliegt
- 5in England und Frankreich erhobene Vasallensteuer
- 6in Frankreich von 1439 bis zur Französischen Revolution 1789 auf das Einkommen und Vermögen der nicht privilegierten Stände (Bauern, Bürger) erhobene Staatssteuer
- 7tiefere Tenorlage in der Instrumentalmusik; das Musikinstrument selbst in dieser Tenorlage (zum Beispiel: Barockoboe, Bratsche)
- 8vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert in Frankreich verbreitete Tenorlage in der Vokal- und Instrumentalmusik
- 9Aufdecken der Karten zum Ermitteln des Gewinns oder Verlustes des Wettbetrages
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atille,taile,tailel,talile,tialle,ttaille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Taille
Misspelling Variants of "Taille"
Frequency rank: #25,341 in German
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