Taillefer
\tajfɛʁ\
The verdict
“Taillefer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,063. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,063
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taillefer · Taillefer · French
Taillefer · rank #39,063 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,063
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tadjikistan
Nearest frequency peer: Tadjikistan (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Taillefer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sutherland
Sutherland
60,941 corpus weight
- séparations
séparations
60,940 corpus weight
- Tadjikistan
Tadjikistan
60,939 corpus weight
- Taillefer
Taillefer
60,938 corpus weight
- tanière
tanière
60,937 corpus weight
- tchadien
tchadien
60,936 corpus weight
What this shows « Taillefer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taillefer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tajfɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Taillefer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Taillefer (IPA \tajfɛʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,063 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Taillefer, with forms such as "atillefer", "tailefer", and "tailelfer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tailler", "tailleur", "taillée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Taillefer, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Taillefer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le troisième ligne de Pau Jordan Joseph a dû déclarer forfait pour la tournée d’automne avec l’équipe de France. C’est un autre débutant, Bastien Vergnes-Taillefer, de l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles, qui le remplace dans la liste des 42 joueurs retenus par Fabien Galthié.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atillefer
- tailefer
- tailelfer
- tailleefr
- tailleferr
- tailleffer
- taillefre
- taillfeer
- talilefer
- tiallefer
- ttaillefer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Taillefer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).