se tailler
\sə tɑ.je\
The verdict
“se tailler” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ficher le camp, se barrer, se tirer, partir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-se-tailler · se tailler · French
se tailler · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | se tailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sə tɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « se tailler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
se tailler is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \sə tɑ.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for se tailler, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is se tailler, spelled S-E- -T-A-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ficher le camp, se barrer, se tirer, partir.
- 2Se découper un morceau, une part de quelque chose pour soi.
- 3S’infliger une taillade, une coupure.
- 4S’attribuer ; conquérir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how se tailler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ça craint ici. Allez ! On s’taille !
— T’es dans l’armée, faut qu’t’y restes. T’es obligé de t’engager pour cinq ans, après l’École. Une fois que tu les auras faits, tes cinq ans, tu penseras plus à t’tailler, j’suis sûr…
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.