tâchant
\tɑ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“tâchant” is uncommon French (frequency #94,353 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,353
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de tâcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tachant · tâchant · French
tâchant · rank #94,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,353
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tyrrhénienne
Nearest frequency peer: tyrrhénienne (-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 « tâchant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tvb
tvb
5,652 corpus weight
- typographes
typographes
5,651 corpus weight
- typologique
typologique
5,650 corpus weight
- tyrrhénienne
tyrrhénienne
5,649 corpus weight
- tâchant
tâchant
5,648 corpus weight
- ultimatums
ultimatums
5,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tâchant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tâchant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tâchant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tâchant is uncommon French at frequency #94,353 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ.ʃɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de tâcher.".
tâchant has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tâchant, spelled T-Â-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de tâcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tâchant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Paris, les hommes sont des systèmes, en Province les systèmes deviennent des hommes, et des hommes à passions incessantes, toujours en présence, s’épiant dans leur intérieur, épiloguant leurs discours, s’observant comme deux duellistes prêts à s’enfoncer six pouces de lame au côté à la moindre distraction, et tâchant de se donner des distractions, enfin…
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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