taillé en pointe
The verdict
“taillé en pointe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Excessivement subtil et raffiné.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taillé en pointe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.je.ʁ‿ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taillé en pointe” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taillé en pointe is 16 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.je.ʁ‿ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\. 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: "Excessivement subtil et raffiné.".
No misspelling variants are generated for taillé en pointe 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 taillé en pointe, spelled T-A-I-L-L-É- -E-N- -P-O-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Excessivement subtil et raffiné.
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Using “taillé en pointe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-I-L-L-É- -E-N- -P-O-I-N-T-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ta.je.ʁ‿ɑ̃ pwɛ̃t\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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