tack
\tak\
The verdict
“tack” is uncommon French (frequency #93,299 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,299
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capacité d’une colle, d’un adhésif de s’accrocher immédiatement au contact d’un support.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tack · tack · French
tack · rank #93,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,299
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tablant
Nearest frequency peer: tablant (-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 « tack »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- séjournaient
séjournaient
6,705 corpus weight
- Séphora
Séphora
6,704 corpus weight
- tablant
tablant
6,703 corpus weight
- tack
tack
6,702 corpus weight
- talonnettes
talonnettes
6,700 corpus weight
- tatouées
tatouées
6,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tack » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tak\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tack » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tack is uncommon French at frequency #93,299 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Capacité d’une colle, d’un adhésif de s’accrocher immédiatement au contact d’un support.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tack, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tack, spelled T-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Capacité d’une colle, d’un adhésif de s’accrocher immédiatement au contact d’un support.
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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