tallis
\ˈtal.lis\
The verdict
“tallis” is uncommon French (frequency #96,432 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,432
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de dallis par durcissement (d → t).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tallis · tallis · French
tallis · rank #96,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,432
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH séleucide
Nearest frequency peer: séleucide (-2 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 « tallis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- synclinal
synclinal
3,572 corpus weight
- séleucide
séleucide
3,571 corpus weight
- tallis
tallis
3,569 corpus weight
- tantouze
tantouze
3,567 corpus weight
- taulards
taulards
3,566 corpus weight
- tees
tees
3,565 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tallis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tallis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈtal.lis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tallis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tallis is uncommon French at frequency #96,432 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈtal.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de dallis par durcissement (d → t).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tallis, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tallis, spelled T-A-L-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de dallis par durcissement (d → t).
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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