Taste

\ˈtastə\

/\ˈtastə\/ noun

The verdict

“Taste” is uncommon French (frequency #52,392 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,392
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Touche d'un clavier, d'un instrument de musique.

Corpus desk

Index FR-taste · Taste · French

Taste · rank #52,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,392
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tartares

Nearest frequency peer: tartares (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Taste »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Taste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Taste
PropertyValue
HeadwordTaste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ˈtastə\
Letters5
Frequency rank#52,392
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Taste » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Tastetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « tartares » (#52,391), « teatro » (#52,393), « tapissier » (#52,390). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « Taste » est au #52,392. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Taste is uncommon French at frequency #52,392 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtastə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Touche d'un clavier, d'un instrument de musique.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Taste, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Taste, spelled T-A-S-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Touche d'un clavier, d'un instrument de musique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Taste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Die Tasten auf der Tastatur dieser Schreibmaschine sind „Azerty“.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Taste"?
"Taste" is spelled T-A-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈtastə\.
What does "Taste" mean?
As a noun, "Taste" means: Touche d'un clavier, d'un instrument de musique.
How do you pronounce "Taste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Taste" is \ˈtastə\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Taste" come from?
"Taste" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Taste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list