tache
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,314
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tache is aFrenchnoun. It means: Souillure sur quelque chose ; marque qui salit. Pronounced \taʃ\. It ranks #8,314 in French word frequency. Often confused with thé and tae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tache is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,314 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tache, with forms such as "atche", "tacche", and "taceh". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "thé", "tae", "taxe", 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 tache, spelled T-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Souillure sur quelque chose ; marque qui salit.
- 2Flétrissure qui blesse l’honneur, la réputation.
- 3Marque naturelle qui paraît sur la peau ou sur certains organes → voir tache de rousseur et tache de vin.
- 4Marque naturelle sur la robe d'un animal.
- 5Dans un sens analogue, certaines parties des végétaux.
- 6Se dit en outre de certaines parties obscures sur le disque du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes et des satellites.
- 7Masse de couleur sans transparence et sans harmonie avec le reste du tableau.
- 8Défaut qui dépare un ouvrage, spécialement un ouvrage de l’esprit.
- 9Personne sans consistance, inutile.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atche,tacche,taceh,tachhe,tahce,tcahe,ttache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tache
Misspelling Variants of "tache"
Frequency rank: #8,314 in French
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