take along
The verdict
“take along” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Amener (hors d’où on vient), emmener (vers où on va).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | take along |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈteik ə.ˈlɒŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “take along” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for take along is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈteik ə.ˈlɒŋ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for take along in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 take along, spelled T-A-K-E- -A-L-O-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Amener (hors d’où on vient), emmener (vers où on va).
- 2Apporter (hors d’où on vient), emporter (vers où on va), prendre avec soi.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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PlainSpell, “take along, French word data” (May 6, 2026). Derived from Wiktionary (kaikki.org, CC BY-SA) and an open word-frequency list. https://plainspell.com/fr/mot/take-along
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Using “take along”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-A-K-E- -A-L-O-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˈteik ə.ˈlɒŋ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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