taboo
\ta.bu\
The verdict
“taboo” is uncommon French (frequency #65,556 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,556
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de tabou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taboo · taboo · French
taboo · rank #65,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,556
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taizé
Nearest frequency peer: Taizé (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « taboo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surpeuplées
surpeuplées
34,449 corpus weight
- surpression
surpression
34,448 corpus weight
- taboo
taboo
34,445 corpus weight
- Taizé
Taizé
34,444 corpus weight
- tapir
tapir
34,443 corpus weight
- tassée
tassée
34,442 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taboo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taboo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.bu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taboo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taboo is uncommon French at frequency #65,556 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de tabou.".
taboo has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is taboo, spelled T-A-B-O-O.
Definition
- 1Variante de tabou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taboo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais c’est taboo.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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