tactile
\tak.til\
The verdict
“tactile” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,492
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on peut toucher ; qui est ou peut être l’objet du tact.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tactile · tactile · French
tactile · rank #16,492 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,492
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH séminaires
Nearest frequency peer: séminaires (-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 « tactile »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- substitut
substitut
83,513 corpus weight
- suicidaire
suicidaire
83,512 corpus weight
- séminaires
séminaires
83,510 corpus weight
- tactile
tactile
83,509 corpus weight
- tan
tan
83,508 corpus weight
- Teresa
Teresa
83,505 corpus weight
What this shows « tactile » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tactile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tak.til\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tactile »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around tactile (IPA \tak.til\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,492 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tactile, with forms such as "atctile", "tacctile", and "tacitle". 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 also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "tatie", "textile", "tartine", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tactile, spelled T-A-C-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que l’on peut toucher ; qui est ou peut être l’objet du tact.
- 2Qui concerne le tact ou le toucher.
- 3Qui réagit au contact d’un doigt.
- 4Qui aime toucher son entourage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tactile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les esprits ne sont point tactiles.
On pouvait se calfeutrer et faire ronfler le poêle, on pouvait même se mettre en pantoufles, en robe de chambre, on se sentait malgré tout à portée vibratoire, quasi tactile, des énormes roues des camions.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atctile
- tacctile
- tacitle
- tactiel
- tactille
- tactlie
- tacttile
- tatcile
- tcatile
- ttactile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tactile - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).