taffetas
\taf.ta\
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
- svod
svod
30,538 corpus weight
- tackle
tackle
30,536 corpus weight
- taffetas
taffetas
30,535 corpus weight
- Taine
Taine
30,534 corpus weight
- Talib
Talib
30,533 corpus weight
- tannins
tannins
30,532 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taffetas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taffetas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taf.ta\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taffetas » en français
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
- 1Étoffe de soie très mince et tissée comme de la toile.
- 2Pansement, morceau d'étoffe imprégné d'un cicatrisant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taffetas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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