taillis
\tɑ.ji\
The verdict
“taillis” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,638
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - L’adjectif n’est usité que dans la locution « bois taillis », le bois que l’on taille, que l’on coupe de temps en temps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taillis · taillis · French
taillis · rank #47,638 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,638
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sérénade
Nearest frequency peer: sérénade (-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 « taillis »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sédimentati…
sédimentation
52,366 corpus weight
- séminaristes
séminaristes
52,365 corpus weight
- sérénade
sérénade
52,364 corpus weight
- taillis
taillis
52,363 corpus weight
- takes
takes
52,362 corpus weight
- taxées
taxées
52,361 corpus weight
What this shows « taillis » 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 | taillis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɑ.ji\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « taillis »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around taillis (IPA \tɑ.ji\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,638 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "L’adjectif n’est usité que dans la locution « bois taillis », le bois que l’on taille, que l’on coupe de temps en temps.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for taillis, with forms such as "atillis", "tailils", and "tailis". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "treillis", "taillé", "tailler", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is taillis, spelled T-A-I-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1L’adjectif n’est usité que dans la locution « bois taillis », le bois que l’on taille, que l’on coupe de temps en temps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taillis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, de l’autre côté du mur que troue, au fond du potager, une petite porte à secret, on trouve un bois taillis où l’avenue de hêtres, de droite et de gauche, aboutit.
L’inspection aboutissait à la petite porte qui servait d’entrée aux visiteurs des ruines. Elle donnait sur un chemin creux resserré entre l’enceinte et un bois-taillis où se voyaient des carrières abandonnées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atillis
- tailils
- tailis
- tailliss
- taillsi
- talilis
- tiallis
- ttaillis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taillis - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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