taisant
\tɛ.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“taisant” is uncommon French (frequency #89,232 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,232
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de taire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taisant · taisant · French
taisant · rank #89,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,232
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tablature
Nearest frequency peer: tablature (-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 « taisant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sériques
sériques
10,773 corpus weight
- taba
taba
10,771 corpus weight
- tablature
tablature
10,770 corpus weight
- taisant
taisant
10,769 corpus weight
- talos
talos
10,768 corpus weight
- taquiné
taquiné
10,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taisant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taisant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taisant is uncommon French at frequency #89,232 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɛ.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de taire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for taisant in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is taisant, spelled T-A-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de taire.
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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