tali
\ta.li\
The verdict
“tali” is uncommon French (frequency #75,286 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,286
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des noms vernaculaires dErythrophleum suaveolens nommé aussi mancône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tali · tali · French
tali · rank #75,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,286
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taki
Nearest frequency peer: taki (-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 « tali »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tachées
tachées
24,718 corpus weight
- Tadashi
Tadashi
24,717 corpus weight
- taki
taki
24,716 corpus weight
- tali
tali
24,715 corpus weight
- tarderont
tarderont
24,714 corpus weight
- tatillon
tatillon
24,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tali » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tali » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tali is uncommon French at frequency #75,286 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tali, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 tali, spelled T-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Un des noms vernaculaires dErythrophleum suaveolens nommé aussi mancône.
- 2Breuvage poison préparé avec les feuilles de cet arbre.
- 3Bois très résistant de cet arbre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tali appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Tali est un grand arbre qui peut atteindre un gros diamètre. La base du fût est munie de contreforts peu développés.
Les Balantes sont très superstitieux , Comme conséquence , une de leurs principales coutumes est le tali . Le tali est le nom d'un arbre dont les feuilles renferment du poison et servent à préparer le breuvage du même nom.
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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