tacle
French, noun
tacle is spelled T-A-C-L-E (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tacle is a French masculine noun meaning “tackle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tacler. With an accent, taclé is a different word: “past participle of tacler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de reprendre avec le pied le ballon en possession de l’adversaire”.
What does tacle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetackle
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of tacler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de reprendre avec le pied le ballon en possession de l’adversaire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tacle
- tacles plural
- taclée feminine
- taclés masculine plural
- taclées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tacle in French?
tacle appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).