du tac au tac
\dy ta.k‿o tak\
The verdict
“du tac au tac” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vivement et immédiatement, en employant le même ton que l’interlocuteur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | du tac au tac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dy ta.k‿o tak\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “du tac au tac” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for du tac au tac is 13 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dy ta.k‿o tak\. 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: "Vivement et immédiatement, en employant le même ton que l’interlocuteur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for du tac au tac, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is du tac au tac, spelled D-U- -T-A-C- -A-U- -T-A-C.
Definition
- 1Vivement et immédiatement, en employant le même ton que l’interlocuteur.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “du tac au tac”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-U- -T-A-C- -A-U- -T-A-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dy ta.k‿o tak\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.