taloche
\ta.lɔʃ\
The verdict
“taloche” is uncommon French (frequency #97,472 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,472
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tape légère donnée avec la main sur la tête ou sur le visage de quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taloche · taloche · French
taloche · rank #97,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,472
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taisons
Nearest frequency peer: taisons (-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 « taloche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tages
Tages
2,532 corpus weight
- tague
tague
2,531 corpus weight
- taisons
taisons
2,530 corpus weight
- taloche
taloche
2,529 corpus weight
- tards
tards
2,527 corpus weight
- tartarin
tartarin
2,526 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taloche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taloche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.lɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taloche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taloche is uncommon French at frequency #97,472 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.lɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tape légère donnée avec la main sur la tête ou sur le visage de quelqu’un.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for taloche, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is taloche, spelled T-A-L-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Tape légère donnée avec la main sur la tête ou sur le visage de quelqu’un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taloche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Eyssette, de le voir éternellement la larme à l’œil, avait fini par le prendre en grippe et l’abreuvait de taloches…
Quand ils faisaient par trop de tapage, elle leur allongeait quelques taloches
This word in other languages
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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