taquinerie
\ta.kin.ʁi\
The verdict
“taquinerie” is uncommon French (frequency #99,690 among 164,488 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,690
- frequency rank, French
- 164,488
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Caractère de celui qui est taquin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taquinerie · taquinerie · French
taquinerie · rank #99,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,690
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 164,488
- PHOTO-FINISH tany
Nearest frequency peer: tany (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “taquinerie”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tannen
Tannen
313 corpus weight
- tany
tany
312 corpus weight
- taquinerie
taquinerie
311 corpus weight
- Tardenois
Tardenois
310 corpus weight
- tarifé
tarifé
309 corpus weight
- taris
taris
308 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “taquinerie” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taquinerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.kin.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taquinerie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
taquinerie is uncommon French at frequency #99,690 among 164,488 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.kin.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for taquinerie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is taquinerie, spelled T-A-Q-U-I-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de celui qui est taquin.
- 2Action de celui qui taquine.
Synonyms
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "taquinerie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.