taquiner
\ta.ki.ne\
The verdict
“taquiner” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,997
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contrarier ou chicaner pour des vétilles, par malin plaisir et pour but de faire rire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taquiner · taquiner · French
taquiner · rank #29,997 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,997
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taisez
Nearest frequency peer: taisez (-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 « taquiner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tactiles
tactiles
70,006 corpus weight
- taisez
taisez
70,005 corpus weight
- taquiner
taquiner
70,004 corpus weight
- tarifaires
tarifaires
70,003 corpus weight
- temporelles
temporelles
70,002 corpus weight
- tends
tends
70,001 corpus weight
What this shows « taquiner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taquiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.ki.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « taquiner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around taquiner (IPA \ta.ki.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,997 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for taquiner, with forms such as "atquiner", "taqiuner", and "taqquiner". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tartiner", "taquin", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is taquiner, spelled T-A-Q-U-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Contrarier ou chicaner pour des vétilles, par malin plaisir et pour but de faire rire.
- 2Agacer gentiment quelqu’un par jeu.
- 3Irriter, tourmenter.
- 4Inciter, leurrer, inviter le poisson.
- 5Toucher de façon distraite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taquiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quels bons rires ils avaient eus, sur la chaise longue, aux pieds raidis, quand elle y mettait ses bas et qu’il la taquinait !
Il avait rejeté les journaux d’un geste dédaigneux, il s’était levé en s’étirant, avec un grognement de lion qu’on taquine.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atquiner
- taqiuner
- taqquiner
- taquienr
- taquinerr
- taquinner
- taquinre
- taqunier
- tauqiner
- tqauiner
- ttaquiner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taquiner - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).