tailler
French, verb/ta.je/
tailler is spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-R (7 letters) and appears 4.2 times per million words in written French, the 12,736th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tailler is a French verb meaning “to cut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couper, retrancher d’une matière, en ôter avec le marteau, le ciseau, ou tout autre instrument, ce qu’il y a…”.
What does tailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to cut
- 2
to sharpen
- 3
informalto do one, to clear off
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. 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. 2. Couper dans une étoffe ce qu’il faut pour confectionner une pièce d’habillement. 3. Faire l’opération de la taille. 4. Distribuer les cartes d'un jeu lors d'une partie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- taillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- taillé participle past
- taille first-person indicative present
- tailles indicative present second-person
- taillons first-person indicative plural
- taillez indicative plural present
- taillent indicative plural present
- taillais first-person imperfect indicative
- taillait imperfect indicative singular
- taillions first-person imperfect indicative
- tailliez imperfect indicative plural
- taillaient imperfect indicative plural
- taillai first-person historic indicative
- taillas historic indicative past
- tailla historic indicative past
- taillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tailler?
- /ta.je/
- /tɑ.je/
- \tɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tailler
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tailler in French?
tailler appears 4.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).