tackle
\takl\
The verdict
“tackle” is uncommon French (frequency #69,465 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,465
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe tackler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tackle · tackle · French
tackle · rank #69,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,465
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taffetas
Nearest frequency peer: taffetas (+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 « tackle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Svalbard
Svalbard
30,539 corpus weight
- svod
svod
30,538 corpus weight
- tackle
tackle
30,536 corpus weight
- taffetas
taffetas
30,535 corpus weight
- Taine
Taine
30,534 corpus weight
- Talib
Talib
30,533 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tackle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tackle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \takl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tackle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tackle is uncommon French at frequency #69,465 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \takl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tackle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tackle, spelled T-A-C-K-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe tackler.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe tackler.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe tackler.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe tackler.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe tackler.
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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