taille
/taɪ/noun
taille is a noun meaning “A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-I-L-L-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of taille is tailles.
What does taille mean?
noun
- 1
A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
- 2
The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce taille?
- /taɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-Thai.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of taille
- tailles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is taille?
Taille appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Words people confuse with taille
Sounds like: Thai, tie (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does taille come from?
Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of tally.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).