talent

\ta.lɑ̃\

/\ta.lɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“talent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,341
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poids du lingot, variable selon les pays.

Corpus desk

Index FR-talent · talent · French

talent · rank #2,341 · 9 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,341
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH située

Nearest frequency peer: située (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « talent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « talent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

talent vs tant
67% similar
talent vs tient
67% similar
talent vs tuent
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for talent
PropertyValue
Headwordtalent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ta.lɑ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,341
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « talent »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).talentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « située » (#2,340), « tombé » (#2,342), « semblent » (#2,339). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « talent » est au #2,341. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around talent (IPA \ta.lɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,341 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for talent, with forms such as "atlent", "taelnt", and "talennt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "tant", "tient", "tuent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is talent, spelled T-A-L-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poids du lingot, variable selon les pays.
  2. 2
    Monnaie de compte indexée sur le poids du lingot.
  3. 3
    Capacité, habileté, aptitude naturelle ou acquise, supériorité dans un art, un métier, etc.
  4. 4
    Personne qui possède un don.
  5. 5
    Salarié ou ensemble de salariés aux compétences clés pour l’organisation (profils pénuriques, experts, « hauts potentiels »).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how talent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Chez les Athéniens, le talent pesait environ vingt-sept kilos.
  2. Selon Philon, pour réaliser cet ouvrage [=le Colosse de Rhodes], il fallut 500 talents de bronze (12,5 tonnes) et 300 talents de fer (7,5 tonnes).

This word in other languages

talent(English)talento(Español)Talent(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atlent
  • taelnt
  • talennt
  • talentt
  • taletn
  • tallent
  • talnet
  • tlaent
  • ttalent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of talent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

atlent2taelnt2talennt1talentt1taletn2tallent1talnet2tlaent2
Edit distance from "talent"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "talent"?
"talent" is spelled T-A-L-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.lɑ̃\.
What does "talent" mean?
As a noun, "talent" means: Poids du lingot, variable selon les pays.
What words are commonly confused with "talent"?
"talent" is commonly confused with "tant", "tient", "tuent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "talent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "talent" is \ta.lɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "talent" come from?
"talent" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "talent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

située#2,340venait#2,345réduit#2,336russes#2,334

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

apprend9 variantsarrêtez9 variantsplateau9 variantsdevons9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list