tails
\teɪlz\
The verdict
“tails” is uncommon French (frequency #58,973 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,973
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tails · tails · French
tails · rank #58,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,973
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taies
Nearest frequency peer: taies (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tails »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tachée
tachée
41,030 corpus weight
- taies
taies
41,029 corpus weight
- tails
tails
41,028 corpus weight
- tamponner
tamponner
41,027 corpus weight
- tangent
tangent
41,026 corpus weight
- tannique
tannique
41,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tails » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tails |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \teɪlz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tails » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tails is uncommon French at frequency #58,973 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \teɪlz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pile.".
tails doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tails, spelled T-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tails appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Let’s flip a coin. What do you choose? Heads or tails?
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).