taboue
\ta.bu\
The verdict
“taboue” is uncommon French (frequency #79,784 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,784
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de tabou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taboue · taboue · French
taboue · rank #79,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,784
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tabassée
Nearest frequency peer: tabassée (-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 « taboue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Séleucides
Séleucides
20,221 corpus weight
- tabagique
tabagique
20,219 corpus weight
- tabassée
tabassée
20,218 corpus weight
- taboue
taboue
20,217 corpus weight
- taillait
taillait
20,215 corpus weight
- Takumi
Takumi
20,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taboue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taboue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.bu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taboue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taboue is uncommon French at frequency #79,784 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.bu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de tabou.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for taboue, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is taboue, spelled T-A-B-O-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de tabou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taboue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Longtemps taboue ou esquivée, la question écologique est aujourd’hui devenue inévitable lors des AG des groupes pétrogaziers et bancaires.
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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