taillait
\tɑ.jɛ\
The verdict
“taillait” is uncommon French (frequency #79,786 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,786
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tailler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taillait · taillait · French
taillait · rank #79,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,786
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Takumi
Nearest frequency peer: Takumi (+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 « taillait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabassée
tabassée
20,218 corpus weight
- taboue
taboue
20,217 corpus weight
- taillait
taillait
20,215 corpus weight
- Takumi
Takumi
20,214 corpus weight
- tally
tally
20,213 corpus weight
- tamazight
tamazight
20,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taillait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taillait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taillait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taillait is uncommon French at frequency #79,786 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tailler.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for taillait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 taillait, spelled T-A-I-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tailler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taillait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’abord, les filles, déchirées de faim malgré leur angoisse, se coupèrent machinalement des tartines, qu’elles mangeaient toutes sèches, sans savoir ; puis, les trois femmes les imitèrent, le pain diminua, il y en avait continuellement une qui taillait et qui croûtonnait.
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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