taff
\taf\
The verdict
“taff” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,926) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,926
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de taf.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taff · taff · French
taff · rank #9,926 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,926
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tabou
Nearest frequency peer: tabou (-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 « taff »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- surprend
surprend
90,078 corpus weight
- séduction
séduction
90,077 corpus weight
- tabou
tabou
90,076 corpus weight
- taff
taff
90,075 corpus weight
- teddy
teddy
90,074 corpus weight
- teinte
teinte
90,073 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « taff » 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 | taff |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taf\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « taff »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for taff is neighbouring look-alikes ("tas", "Tag", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \taf\. Frequency #9,926 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Variante de taf.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for taff, with forms such as "atff", "tfaf", and "ttaff". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tas", "Tag", "tan", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is taff, spelled T-A-F-F.
Definition
- 1Variante de taf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
essayer d’avoir alors deux IP différentes (celle au taff, celle à la maison, mettons) et inventer aussi des vies bien remplies pour avoir l’air crédible, friends cohérents et bios détailleuses, après quoi on peut commencer certainement à déjanter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atff
- tfaf
- ttaff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taff - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "taff", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).