tally
\ˈtæl.i\
The verdict
“tally” is uncommon French (frequency #79,788 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,788
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Taille (bûchette fendue pour compter).
Corpus desk
Index FR-tally · tally · French
tally · rank #79,788 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,788
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Takumi
Nearest frequency peer: Takumi (-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 « tally »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taboue
taboue
20,217 corpus weight
- taillait
taillait
20,215 corpus weight
- Takumi
Takumi
20,214 corpus weight
- tally
tally
20,213 corpus weight
- tamazight
tamazight
20,212 corpus weight
- tangentes
tangentes
20,210 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tally » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tally |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtæl.i\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tally » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tally is uncommon French at frequency #79,788 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtæl.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for tally in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tally, spelled T-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Taille (bûchette fendue pour compter).
- 2Compte (écrit contenant l’énumération, le calcul, la supputation de cet état).
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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