Taste
\ˈtastə\
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
- taking
taking
47,612 corpus weight
- tapissier
tapissier
47,611 corpus weight
- tartares
tartares
47,610 corpus weight
- Taste
Taste
47,609 corpus weight
- teatro
teatro
47,608 corpus weight
- teo
teo
47,607 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Taste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtastə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Taste » en français
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
- 1Touche d'un clavier, d'un instrument de musique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Taste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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