tait
/teɪt/noun
tait is a noun meaning “The honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-I-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tait is taits.
What does tait mean?
noun
- 1
The honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce tait?
- /teɪt/
Tait has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tait
- taits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tait?
Tait appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tait come from?
A borrowing into English of the Australian aboriginal name for the animal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).