taleb
\ta.lɛb\
The verdict
“taleb” is uncommon French (frequency #57,629 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,629
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étudiant dans une université coranique, souvent en vue de devenir mollah.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taleb · taleb · French
taleb · rank #57,629 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,629
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tagada
Nearest frequency peer: tagada (-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 « taleb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Séguier
Séguier
42,374 corpus weight
- tagada
tagada
42,373 corpus weight
- taleb
taleb
42,372 corpus weight
- talismans
talismans
42,371 corpus weight
- tamaris
tamaris
42,370 corpus weight
- tamerlan
tamerlan
42,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taleb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taleb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.lɛb\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taleb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taleb is uncommon French at frequency #57,629 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.lɛb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for taleb, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is taleb, spelled T-A-L-E-B.
Definition
- 1Étudiant dans une université coranique, souvent en vue de devenir mollah.
- 2Écrivain public au Maghreb.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taleb appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Écoute, Mahmoud, si je ne t’adoptais pas, moi aussi, pour frère, si nous ne l’étions pas déjà par notre cheikh et notre chapelet, et si je ne voyais pas que tu es un taleb, je me serais mis fort en colère au sujet de ta demande, car il n’est pas d’usage, tu le sais, de parler de sa famille.
Naguère, les tolba pouvaient rester dix ans en médersa ; la onzième année seulement, on leur supprimait le pain quotidien et on les expulsait de leurs chambres. Cette coutume est maintenant abolie : au bout de trois ans, on exige du taleb qui a fréquenté Karaouiyin quelque preuve de science.
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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