tachée
\ta.ʃe\
The verdict
“tachée” is uncommon French (frequency #58,971 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,971
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de tacher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tachée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tachée” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tachée is uncommon French at frequency #58,971 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de tacher.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tachée, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tachée, spelled T-A-C-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de tacher.
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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Using “tachée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-C-H-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.