taffer
\ta.fe\
The verdict
“taffer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,819
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Travailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taffer · taffer · French
taffer · rank #48,819 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,819
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH talonneur
Nearest frequency peer: talonneur (+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 « taffer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- séduisantes
séduisantes
51,186 corpus weight
- séjourna
séjourna
51,185 corpus weight
- séparateur
séparateur
51,184 corpus weight
- taffer
taffer
51,182 corpus weight
- talonneur
talonneur
51,181 corpus weight
- tari
tari
51,179 corpus weight
What this shows « taffer » 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 | taffer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.fe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « taffer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around taffer (IPA \ta.fe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,819 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for taffer, with forms such as "atffer", "tafefr", and "tafer". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "taper", "taxer", "taser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is taffer, spelled T-A-F-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Travailler.
- 2Exécuter (un travail).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taffer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les matins ce crétin congénital emmenait sa femme à son travail, ils y allaient en voiture et comme sa maîtresse habitait juste derrière l’immeuble où son épouse taffait, la place passagère dans la voiture n'avait pas le temps de refroidir que la maîtresse y calait gentiment ses grosses miches.
Les émeutes s'étaient éteintes sur le ter-ter, dans la télé et dans les têtes. La majorité étudiait en lycée pro ou général. D'autres taffaient. Quelques exceptions, décrocheurs scolaires et exclus, rejoignaient les blocs des Bensama, pour guetter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atffer
- tafefr
- tafer
- tafferr
- taffre
- tfafer
- ttaffer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taffer - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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