taillant
\tɑ.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“taillant” is uncommon French (frequency #64,122 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,122
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranchant d’une lame.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taillant · taillant · French
taillant · rank #64,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,122
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sélecteur
Nearest frequency peer: sélecteur (-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 « taillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- survivrait
survivrait
35,882 corpus weight
- sutil
sutil
35,881 corpus weight
- sélecteur
sélecteur
35,880 corpus weight
- taillant
taillant
35,879 corpus weight
- tangerine
tangerine
35,878 corpus weight
- tapin
tapin
35,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taillant is uncommon French at frequency #64,122 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tɑ.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for taillant, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is taillant, spelled T-A-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Tranchant d’une lame.
- 2Extrémité active d’un foret, d’une mèche perforatrice, d’un outil.
- 3Marteau de sculpteur qui possède deux tranchants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taillant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Sacrée misère ! fit-il, j’ai attrapé une fourmilière qui a abîmé mon taillant.
Le plus souvent les deux taillants sont parallèles ou se rapprochent à peine vers leurs extrémités, mais peuvent aussi converger au point qu’une diminution suffisante de largeur à l’une d’elles permette à la main d’empaumer la pièce et d’assurer une prise convenable comme le ferait un manche.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).