tailler les crayons
The verdict
“tailler les crayons” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se dit pour indiquer que l’on est employé à des travaux subalternes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tailler les crayons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.je le kʁɛ.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tailler les crayons” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tailler les crayons is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.je le kʁɛ.jɔ̃\. 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: "Se dit pour indiquer que l’on est employé à des travaux subalternes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tailler les crayons 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 tailler les crayons, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-R-A-Y-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour indiquer que l’on est employé à des travaux subalternes.
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Using “tailler les crayons”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-I-L-L-E-R- -L-E-S- -C-R-A-Y-O-N-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ta.je le kʁɛ.jɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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