taille de guêpe
The verdict
“taille de guêpe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Taille très fine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taille de guêpe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑj də ɡɛp\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taille de guêpe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taille de guêpe is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑj də ɡɛp\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Taille très fine.".
No misspelling variants are generated for taille de guêpe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is taille de guêpe, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -G-U-Ê-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Taille très fine.
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Using “taille de guêpe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -G-U-Ê-P-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \tɑj də ɡɛp\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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