Taizé
\tɛ.ze\
The verdict
“Taizé” is uncommon French (frequency #65,557 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,557
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de Saône-et-Loire, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taize · Taizé · French
Taizé · rank #65,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,557
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taboo
Nearest frequency peer: taboo (-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 « Taizé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- surpression
surpression
34,448 corpus weight
- taboo
taboo
34,445 corpus weight
- Taizé
Taizé
34,444 corpus weight
- tapir
tapir
34,443 corpus weight
- tassée
tassée
34,442 corpus weight
- tavu
tavu
34,441 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Taizé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taizé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \tɛ.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Taizé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Taizé is uncommon French at frequency #65,557 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \tɛ.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Taizé, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Taizé, spelled T-A-I-Z-É.
Definition
- 1Commune de Saône-et-Loire, en France.
- 2Ancien nom de la commune de Taizé-Maulais jusqu’en janvier 2016.
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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