tait
\tɛ\
The verdict
“tait” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,520
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de taire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tait · tait · French
tait · rank #15,520 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,520
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tahiti
Nearest frequency peer: Tahiti (-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 « tait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- synopsis
synopsis
84,484 corpus weight
- syntaxe
syntaxe
84,483 corpus weight
- Tahiti
Tahiti
84,482 corpus weight
- tait
tait
84,481 corpus weight
- taré
taré
84,480 corpus weight
- terminés
terminés
84,479 corpus weight
What this shows « tait » 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 | tait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tait (IPA \tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,520 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de taire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tait, with forms such as "atit", "taitt", and "tati". 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, "toi", "tas", "tir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tait, spelled T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de taire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atit
- taitt
- tati
- tiat
- ttait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).