Taine
\tɛn\
The verdict
“Taine” is uncommon French (frequency #69,467 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,467
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taine · Taine · French
Taine · rank #69,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,467
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taffetas
Nearest frequency peer: taffetas (-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 « Taine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tackle
tackle
30,536 corpus weight
- taffetas
taffetas
30,535 corpus weight
- Taine
Taine
30,534 corpus weight
- Talib
Talib
30,533 corpus weight
- tannins
tannins
30,532 corpus weight
- tapés
tapés
30,531 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Taine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Taine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Taine is uncommon French at frequency #69,467 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Taine, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Taine, spelled T-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Taine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Taine est un homme de cabinet et d’académie, qui veut, malgré tout, garder un certain ton docte et ne pas se tacher avec la sauce horrible des cataclysmes, déchaînés, comme par un enfant qui tape son assiette avec sa cuiller.
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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