tat
\taːt\
The verdict
“tat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,065) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,065
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de tun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tat · tat · French
tat · rank #38,065 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,065
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taipei
Nearest frequency peer: Taipei (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tat »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- synchroniser
synchroniser
61,939 corpus weight
- synchronisée
synchronisée
61,938 corpus weight
- Taipei
Taipei
61,937 corpus weight
- tat
tat
61,936 corpus weight
- tempérer
tempérer
61,935 corpus weight
- teneurs
teneurs
61,934 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tat » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | tat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \taːt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tat »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tat is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "te", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \taːt\. Frequency #38,065 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for tat in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tat, spelled T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de tun.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du prétérit de l’indicatif à la forme active de tun.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).