taro
\ta.ʁo\
The verdict
“taro” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,091. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,091
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tubercule comestible de diverses plantes de la famille des Araceae (Aracées), sauf le taro chinois qui est de la famille des Alismatacées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taro · taro · French
taro · rank #37,091 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,091
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tattoo
Nearest frequency peer: tattoo (+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 « taro »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Sutter
Sutter
62,914 corpus weight
- sécrétions
sécrétions
62,913 corpus weight
- sénile
sénile
62,912 corpus weight
- taro
taro
62,910 corpus weight
- tattoo
tattoo
62,909 corpus weight
- tendait
tendait
62,908 corpus weight
What this shows « taro » 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 | taro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « taro »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around taro (IPA \ta.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,091 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for taro, with forms such as "atro", "taor", and "tarro". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tas", "tir", "tri", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is taro, spelled T-A-R-O.
Definition
- 1Tubercule comestible de diverses plantes de la famille des Araceae (Aracées), sauf le taro chinois qui est de la famille des Alismatacées.
- 2Tubercule comestible de la colocase (Colocasia esculenta) ou de ses variétés, sous-espèces et cultivars.
- 3La plante (la colocase), elle-même.
- 4Macabo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme hors-d’œuvre, il y avait du poisson cru […] et aussi du « poi » de taro qui est le plat favori des Hawaïens et était de la purée de taro mélangée à des bananes.
Les Pulmonés aquatiques sont rares : une Physe, Isidora moderata Clessin habite les mares à taros de Rikitea (Mangareva) ; elle pond au mois de novembre (été austral).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atro
- taor
- tarro
- trao
- ttaro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of taro - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).