tahitien
\ta.i.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“tahitien” is uncommon French (frequency #67,152 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,152
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à Tahiti, à ses habitants ou à sa langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tahitien · tahitien · French
tahitien · rank #67,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,152
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sémite
Nearest frequency peer: sémite (-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 « tahitien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sécrètent
sécrètent
32,853 corpus weight
- séducteurs
séducteurs
32,852 corpus weight
- séminariste
séminariste
32,851 corpus weight
- sémite
sémite
32,850 corpus weight
- tahitien
tahitien
32,849 corpus weight
- tanin
tanin
32,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tahitien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tahitien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.i.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tahitien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tahitien is uncommon French at frequency #67,152 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.i.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à Tahiti, à ses habitants ou à sa langue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tahitien in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 tahitien, spelled T-A-H-I-T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à Tahiti, à ses habitants ou à sa langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tahitien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tard dans la soirée, les danseurs commencèrent à s’animer. Il y eut alors quelques essais de « upa upa », qui est d’origine tahitienne, suggestive et voluptueuse.
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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