tais
\tɛ\
The verdict
“tais” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,078. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,078
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de taire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tais · tais · French
tais · rank #13,078 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,078
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sémantique
Nearest frequency peer: sémantique (-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 « tais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- suspense
suspense
86,926 corpus weight
- syndical
syndical
86,925 corpus weight
- sémantique
sémantique
86,924 corpus weight
- tais
tais
86,923 corpus weight
- take
take
86,922 corpus weight
- touch
touch
86,921 corpus weight
What this shows « tais » 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 | tais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,078 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tais (IPA \tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,078 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tais, with forms such as "atis", "taiss", and "tasi". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TS", "toi", "tes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tais, spelled T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de taire.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de taire.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de taire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atis
- taiss
- tasi
- tias
- ttais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tais - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).