tacot

\ta.ko\

/\ta.ko\/ noun

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The verdict

“tacot” is uncommon French (frequency #87,197 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,197
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bout de bois.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tacot · tacot · French

tacot · rank #87,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,197
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH séduites

Nearest frequency peer: séduites (-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 « tacot »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tacot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tacot
PropertyValue
Headwordtacot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ta.ko\
Letters5
Frequency rank#87,197
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tacot » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tacottombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « séduites » (#87,196), « Tanja » (#87,198), « synodale » (#87,195). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tacot » est au #87,197. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tacot is uncommon French at frequency #87,197 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.ko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for tacot in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tacot, spelled T-A-C-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Bout de bois.
  2. 2
    Petit verre d’alcool.
  3. 3
    Taxi.
  4. 4
    Vieille voiture en mauvais état qui fonctionne mal.
  5. 5
    Mécanisme qui donne l’impulsion à la navette dans les métiers à tisser.
  6. 6
    Petit tronçon de chemin de fer d’intérêt local, régional.
  7. 7
    Caisse à savon, petit véhicule monoplace sans moteur mu par gravité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tacot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On appelle tacot les pointes acérées des arbustes qui dépassent du sol après une coupe mécanique comme celle d'un rotovateur par exemple.
  2. Mais, tout de même, il prendrait le tacot, au Luxembourg, et pousserait une pointe jusqu’à Bourg-la-Reine ; […].

Synonyms

guimbarderavanteuf-teuftas de bouetas de ferraillecaisse à savon

This word in other languages

rattletrap(English)cacharro(Español)carroça(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tacot"?
"tacot" is spelled T-A-C-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.ko\.
What does "tacot" mean?
As a noun, "tacot" means: Bout de bois.
How do you pronounce "tacot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tacot" is \ta.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tacot" come from?
"tacot" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tacot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Tanja#87,198tasty#87,202strix#87,185tilde#87,210

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list