taking
\ˈteɪ.kɪŋ\
The verdict
“taking” is uncommon French (frequency #52,389 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,389
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe take.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taking · taking · French
taking · rank #52,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,389
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taillent
Nearest frequency peer: taillent (-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 « taking »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabarnak
tabarnak
47,615 corpus weight
- tabliers
tabliers
47,614 corpus weight
- taillent
taillent
47,613 corpus weight
- taking
taking
47,612 corpus weight
- tapissier
tapissier
47,611 corpus weight
- tartares
tartares
47,610 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taking » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈteɪ.kɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taking » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taking is uncommon French at frequency #52,389 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈteɪ.kɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe take.".
Zero misspellings are on record for taking in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is taking, spelled T-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe take.
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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