tac
\tak\
The verdict
“tac” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,369) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,369
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire d’une sorte de gale à laquelle le cheval, le chien et le mouton sont le plus sujets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tac · tac · French
tac · rank #14,369 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,369
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH supporté
Nearest frequency peer: supporté (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tac »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- suggèrent
suggèrent
85,634 corpus weight
- supporté
supporté
85,633 corpus weight
- tac
tac
85,632 corpus weight
- tatouages
tatouages
85,631 corpus weight
- tenons
tenons
85,630 corpus weight
- Titan
Titan
85,629 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tac » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tak\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tac »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tac is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "te", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tak\. Frequency #14,369 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Nom vulgaire d’une sorte de gale à laquelle le cheval, le chien et le mouton sont le plus sujets.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tac in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tac, spelled T-A-C.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire d’une sorte de gale à laquelle le cheval, le chien et le mouton sont le plus sujets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tac s’est mis dans ce troupeau.
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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