tassili
The verdict
“tassili” is uncommon French (frequency #73,598 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,598
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plateau gréseux au Sahara.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tassili · tassili · French
tassili · rank #73,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,598
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tancarville
Nearest frequency peer: Tancarville (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tassili »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabula
tabula
26,408 corpus weight
- Tahitienne
Tahitienne
26,407 corpus weight
- talonnade
talonnade
26,406 corpus weight
- Tancarville
Tancarville
26,405 corpus weight
- tassili
tassili
26,403 corpus weight
- teasers
teasers
26,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tassili » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tassili |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tassili » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tassili is uncommon French at frequency #73,598 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plateau gréseux au Sahara.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tassili, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tassili, spelled T-A-S-S-I-L-I.
Definition
- 1Plateau gréseux au Sahara.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tassili appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tassili du Hoggar.
Les tassilis, suivant qu'on les parcourt en cheminant sur la surface topographique du plateau ou en longeant les ravins, apparaissent comme une parfaite hamada, ou comme un prodigieux amoncellement de colonnes gréseuses, déchiquetées.
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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