tal
\tal\
The verdict
“tal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,788) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,788
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l’univers fictif de Barsoom, unité de temps équivalant à la seconde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tal · tal · French
tal · rank #21,788 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,788
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tact
Nearest frequency peer: tact (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tal »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- séparatiste
séparatiste
78,216 corpus weight
- sésame
sésame
78,215 corpus weight
- tact
tact
78,214 corpus weight
- tal
tal
78,213 corpus weight
- talbot
talbot
78,212 corpus weight
- tartes
tartes
78,211 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tal » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tal\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tal »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tal is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "te", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tal\. Frequency #21,788 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Dans l’univers fictif de Barsoom, unité de temps équivalant à la seconde.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tal, spelled T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Dans l’univers fictif de Barsoom, unité de temps équivalant à la seconde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a 200 tals dans un xat.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).