taire
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,298
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
taire is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne pas dire ; passer sous silence. Pronounced \tɛʁ\. It ranks #5,298 in French word frequency. Often confused with tir and tre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taire is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,298 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for taire, with forms such as "atire", "taier", and "tairre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tir", "tre", "tie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 taire, spelled T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ne pas dire ; passer sous silence.
- 2Maitriser un sentiment ; le contraindre au silence.
- 3(Utilisé uniquement dans faire taire) Ne pas faire de bruit ; en ce sens, il se dit des animaux, et généralement de tout ce qui est capable de faire du bruit.
- 4Garder le silence, s’abstenir de parler.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atire,taier,tairre,tarie,tiare,ttaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for taire
Misspelling Variants of "taire"
Frequency rank: #5,298 in French
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