taille de pierre

/\tɑj də pjɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“taille de pierre” 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
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Art qui a pour objet l’extraction, la découpe et le façonnage de la pierre afin de bâtir des ouvrages constitué en grande partie de cet élément.

Key facts for taille de pierre
PropertyValue
Headwordtaille de pierre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tɑj də pjɛʁ\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “taille de pierre” sits in French frequency

taille de pierre falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for taille de pierre is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑj də pjɛʁ\. 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: "Art qui a pour objet l’extraction, la découpe et le façonnage de la pierre afin de bâtir des ouvrages constitué en grande partie de cet élément.".

No misspelling variants are generated for taille de pierre 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 pierre, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art qui a pour objet l’extraction, la découpe et le façonnage de la pierre afin de bâtir des ouvrages constitué en grande partie de cet élément.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "taille de pierre"?
"taille de pierre" is spelled T-A-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -P-I-E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tɑj də pjɛʁ\.
What does "taille de pierre" mean?
As a noun, "taille de pierre" means: Art qui a pour objet l’extraction, la découpe et le façonnage de la pierre afin de bâtir des ouvrages constitué en grande partie de cet élément.
How do you pronounce "taille de pierre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "taille de pierre" is \tɑj də pjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "taille de pierre" come from?
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Using “taille de pierre”

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- -P-I-E-R-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \tɑj də pjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.