tas
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,392
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Monceau, amas, accumulation de choses. Pronounced \tɑ\. It ranks #2,392 in French word frequency. Often confused with tu and te.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɑ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tas is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,392 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for tas in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tas, spelled T-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Monceau, amas, accumulation de choses.
- 2Abondance, multitude, grande quantité.
- 3Multitude de gens amassés ensemble.
- 4Pile de dames qu’on fait avant de commencer le jeu de trictrac.
- 5Petite enclume portative, qui sert aux orfèvres et à divers autres ouvriers, placée quelquefois sur le même billot qu’une grande.
- 6Masse d’un ouvrage en construction.
- 7Matrice dont se servent les boutonniers.
- 8Bloc d’acier sur lequel on essaye la sonorité des monnaies frappées.
- 9Tasseau en pierre horizontalement placé sur une colonne, un pilier, etc., et qui supporte un arc, une voûte, etc.
- 10Place sur laquelle on raccorde, dans le bâtiment, une pièce que l’on pose.
- 11Personne obèse et disgracieuse.
- 12Coup.
- 13Zone de la mémoire où sont situés les objets alloués dynamiquement.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,392 in French
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