craie de tailleur
\kʁɛ də ta.jœʁ\
The verdict
“craie de tailleur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Plaquette à base de talc, permettant de tracer provisoirement sur le tissu les traits nécessaires pour la coupe et les autres travaux de confection.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | craie de tailleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛ də ta.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “craie de tailleur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for craie de tailleur is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛ də ta.jœʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plaquette à base de talc, permettant de tracer provisoirement sur le tissu les traits nécessaires pour la coupe et les autres travaux de confection.".
No misspelling variants are generated for craie de tailleur in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is craie de tailleur, spelled C-R-A-I-E- -D-E- -T-A-I-L-L-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plaquette à base de talc, permettant de tracer provisoirement sur le tissu les traits nécessaires pour la coupe et les autres travaux de confection.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-A-I-E- -D-E- -T-A-I-L-L-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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