tailleur
\tɑ.jœʁ\
The verdict
“tailleur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,701. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,701
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui taille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tailleur · tailleur · French
tailleur · rank #13,701 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,701
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH syndic
Nearest frequency peer: syndic (-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 « tailleur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- surprenante
surprenante
86,303 corpus weight
- sympathisan…
sympathisants
86,302 corpus weight
- syndic
syndic
86,301 corpus weight
- tailleur
tailleur
86,300 corpus weight
- there
there
86,299 corpus weight
- thon
thon
86,298 corpus weight
What this shows « tailleur » 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 | tailleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tailleur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tailleur (IPA \tɑ.jœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,701 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tailleur, with forms such as "atilleur", "tailelur", and "taileur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "tilleul", "tailleurs", "taillé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tailleur, spelled T-A-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui taille.
- 2Celui qui taille des habits, qui fait des vêtements.
- 3Costume féminin ajusté et composé d’une jaquette et d’une jupe de même étoffe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tailleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les tailleurs de pierre qui sculptaient les images des cathédrales, il y avait des hommes d’un talent supérieur, qui semblent être demeurés toujours confondus dans la masse des compagnons ; ils ne produisaient pas moins des chefs-d’œuvre.
À droite et à gauche s’étendent toutes sortes de cultures tigrées et zébrées qui ressemblent parfaitement à ces cartes de tailleurs où sont collés les échantillons de pantalons et de gilets. Ces perspectives font les délices des agronomes, des propriétaires et autres bourgeois, mais offrent une maigre pâture au voyageur enthousiaste et descriptif qui, la…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atilleur
- tailelur
- taileur
- tailleru
- tailleurr
- tailluer
- talileur
- tialleur
- ttailleur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tailleur - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).