taïga
\taj.ɡa\
The verdict
“taïga” is uncommon French (frequency #70,261 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,261
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forêt de conifères de climat boréal, dans le nord de l’Europe, de l’Asie et de l’Amérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taiga · taïga · French
taïga · rank #70,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,261
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tatooine
Nearest frequency peer: Tatooine (-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 « taïga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tartelettes
tartelettes
29,743 corpus weight
- Tasha
Tasha
29,742 corpus weight
- Tatooine
Tatooine
29,741 corpus weight
- taïga
taïga
29,740 corpus weight
- TBM
TBM
29,739 corpus weight
- tedeschi
tedeschi
29,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taïga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taïga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taj.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taïga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taïga is uncommon French at frequency #70,261 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \taj.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forêt de conifères de climat boréal, dans le nord de l’Europe, de l’Asie et de l’Amérique.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for taïga, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is taïga, spelled T-A-Ï-G-A.
Definition
- 1Forêt de conifères de climat boréal, dans le nord de l’Europe, de l’Asie et de l’Amérique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taïga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais il ne s’agit jamais de pergélisol continu. De fait, seule la taïga russe est affectée par ce phénomène.
Regarder vers l’est était le pire. La Sibérie orientale et la taïga.
Synonyms
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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