tab

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tab is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tab\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,865 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Vignette attenant à un timbre situé en bord de feuille (ce terme est généralement utilisé pour parler des vignettes de bas de feuille des timbres israéliens).".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tab in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 tab, spelled T-A-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.