tasse
\tas\
The verdict
“tasse” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,907
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient pour boire, muni d’une anse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tasse · tasse · French
tasse · rank #7,907 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,907
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH talons
Nearest frequency peer: talons (-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 « tasse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- souffrent
souffrent
92,097 corpus weight
- souligné
souligné
92,096 corpus weight
- talons
talons
92,095 corpus weight
- tasse
tasse
92,094 corpus weight
- territorial…
territoriales
92,093 corpus weight
- tigre
tigre
92,092 corpus weight
What this shows « tasse » 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 | tasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tasse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tasse (IPA \tas\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,907 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tasse, with forms such as "atsse", "tase", and "tases". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tsé", "tss", "taxe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tasse, spelled T-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Récipient pour boire, muni d’une anse.
- 2Contenu de ce récipient.
- 3Unité de mesure de capacité, valant 8 onces fluides (britanniques), soit 227,3045 mL.
- 4Quart pendant lequel boivent les soldats.
- 5Urinoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miss Ellen, versez-moi le Thé Dans la belle tasse chinoise, Où des poissons d'or cherchent noise Au monstre rose épouvanté.
Ces fameuses tasses, de vieux Japon, sont conservées dans une caisse où leurs cigognes hautaines dorment, parmi les copeaux, où leurs soleils rutilants s’abîment dans la nuit, où leurs montagnes mauves s’alanguissent au bord des lacs transparents, en des papiers de soie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atsse
- tase
- tases
- tsase
- ttasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tasse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).