tas de tôle
\ta də tol\
The verdict
“tas de tôle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vieille voiture ; voiture en très mauvais état.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tas-de-tole · tas de tôle · French
tas de tôle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tas de tôle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta də tol\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tas de tôle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta də tol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tas de tôle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tas de tôle, spelled T-A-S- -D-E- -T-Ô-L-E.
Definition
- 1Vieille voiture ; voiture en très mauvais état.
- 2Voiture (en général).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tas de tôle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous vous souvenez comment celui qui vous a mis au monde vous a regardé descendre la rue, comment il a observé le dernier millimètre de son vieux tas de tôle disparaître de sa vie, comme s’il assistait, impuissant, à son cambriolage.
Le faisceau provient d’une guimbarde. Le tas de tôle se planque à quelques mètres derrière mon véhicule. Un gyrophare trône sur le tableau de bord.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.