taffetas

\taf.ta\

/\taf.ta\/ noun

The verdict

“taffetas” is uncommon French (frequency #69,466 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,466
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe de soie très mince et tissée comme de la toile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-taffetas · taffetas · French

taffetas · rank #69,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #69,466
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tackle

Nearest frequency peer: tackle (-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 « taffetas »

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 « taffetas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for taffetas
PropertyValue
Headwordtaffetas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\taf.ta\
Letters8
Frequency rank#69,466
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « taffetas » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).taffetastombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « tackle » (#69,465), « Taine » (#69,467), « Talib » (#69,468). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « taffetas » est au #69,466. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

taffetas is uncommon French at frequency #69,466 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \taf.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for taffetas in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is taffetas, spelled T-A-F-F-E-T-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étoffe de soie très mince et tissée comme de la toile.
  2. 2
    Pansement, morceau d'étoffe imprégné d'un cicatrisant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Madame Grandet mettait constamment une robe de levantine verdâtre, qu'elle s'était accoutumée à faire durer près d'une année ; elle portait un grand fichu de cotonnade blanche, un chapeau de paille cousue, et gardait presque toujours un tablier de taffetas noir. Sortant peu du logis, elle usait peu de souliers.
  2. Voici d’abord, assis dans les stalles sculptées qui entourent le chœur, le sire de Trinquelage, en habit de taffetas saumon, et près de lui tous les nobles seigneurs invités.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "taffetas"?
"taffetas" is spelled T-A-F-F-E-T-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \taf.ta\.
What does "taffetas" mean?
As a noun, "taffetas" means: Étoffe de soie très mince et tissée comme de la toile.
How do you pronounce "taffetas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "taffetas" is \taf.ta\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list