taciturne
\ta.si.tyʁn\
The verdict
“taciturne” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,763
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est de tempérament, d’humeur à parler peu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taciturne · taciturne · French
taciturne · rank #44,763 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,763
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sénéchaussée
Nearest frequency peer: sénéchaussée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « taciturne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suspectée
suspectée
55,242 corpus weight
- sédimentaire
sédimentaire
55,241 corpus weight
- sénéchaussée
sénéchaussée
55,239 corpus weight
- taciturne
taciturne
55,238 corpus weight
- tacler
tacler
55,237 corpus weight
- Talence
Talence
55,235 corpus weight
What this shows « taciturne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taciturne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.si.tyʁn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #44,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « taciturne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around taciturne (IPA \ta.si.tyʁn\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #44,763 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for taciturne, with forms such as "atciturne", "tacciturne", and "tacitrune". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is taciturne, spelled T-A-C-I-T-U-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est de tempérament, d’humeur à parler peu.
- 2Qui a le caractère du silence, qui ne laisse rien exprimer.
- 3Qui rend d’humeur à parler peu, qui rend silencieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taciturne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle ne comprenait rien au caractère de son mari ; mais, de doux et bienveillant qu’elle l’avait toujours connu, il était devenu défiant et taciturne.
Le vieux matelot, assez taciturne de sa nature, la barre engagée sous le bras, se tenait silencieux à l’arrière de l’embarcation.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atciturne
- tacciturne
- tacitrune
- tacitturne
- tacitunre
- tacituren
- taciturnne
- taciturrne
- taciutrne
- tactiurne
- taicturne
- tcaiturne
- ttaciturne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taciturne - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "taciturne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).