tailler
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,873
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
tailler is aFrenchverb. It means: Couper, retrancher d’une matière, en ôter avec le marteau, le ciseau, ou tout autre instrument, ce qu’il y a de superflu, pour lui donner une certaine forme, pour la rendre propre à tel ou tel usage. Pronounced \tɑ.je\. Often confused with Teller and trailer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tailler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tailler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,873 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tailler, with forms such as "atiller", "tailelr", and "tailer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Teller", "trailer", "taillés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 tailler, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Couper, retrancher d’une matière, en ôter avec le marteau, le ciseau, ou tout autre instrument, ce qu’il y a de superflu, pour lui donner une certaine forme, pour la rendre propre à tel ou tel usage.
- 2Couper dans une étoffe ce qu’il faut pour confectionner une pièce d’habillement.
- 3Faire l’opération de la taille.
- 4Distribuer les cartes d'un jeu lors d'une partie.
- 5Distribuer les cartes et jouer seul contre tous les autres joueurs.
- 6Répartir l’impôt. Imposer.
- 7Déguerpir, s’enfuir.
- 8Réduire ; supprimer.
- 9Être grand ou petit pour la taille, en parlant d'un vêtement.
- 10Gagner, obtenir.
- 11Parler de quelqu’un en termes défavorables ou malveillants, généralement en son absence, en répandant des propos négatifs auprès de son entourage ou d’autres personnes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atiller,tailelr,tailer,taillerr,taillre,taliler,tialler,ttailler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tailler
Misspelling Variants of "tailler"
Frequency rank: #12,873 in French
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