taf
\taf\
The verdict
“taf” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,081) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,081
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travail à faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taf · taf · French
taf · rank #9,081 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,081
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sursis
Nearest frequency peer: sursis (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « taf »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- supériorité
supériorité
90,922 corpus weight
- sursis
sursis
90,921 corpus weight
- taf
taf
90,920 corpus weight
- tarder
tarder
90,919 corpus weight
- temporairem…
temporairement
90,918 corpus weight
- teneur
teneur
90,917 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « taf » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | taf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « taf »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for taf is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "te", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \taf\. Frequency #9,081 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for taf, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is taf, spelled T-A-F.
Definition
- 1Travail à faire.
- 2Emploi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne peux pas aller au ciné ce soir, j’ai du taf !
Melvine Malard a fait le taf. Comme Ève Périsset l’avait fait avant.
This word in other languages
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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