tâté
\tɑ.te\
The verdict
“tâté” is uncommon French (frequency #69,504 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,504
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de tâter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tate · tâté · French
tâté · rank #69,504 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,504
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH téléjournal
Nearest frequency peer: téléjournal (+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 « tâté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tuche
tuche
30,500 corpus weight
- twerk
twerk
30,499 corpus weight
- tâté
tâté
30,497 corpus weight
- téléjournal
téléjournal
30,496 corpus weight
- télékinésie
télékinésie
30,495 corpus weight
- témoignaient
témoignaient
30,494 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tâté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tâté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ.te\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tâté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tâté is uncommon French at frequency #69,504 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \tɑ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de tâter.".
tâté has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tâté, spelled T-Â-T-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de tâter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tâté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quand j’ai posé les doigts sur les barres de métal un contact tiède et mou, plus proche du plastique que du fer, m’a étonné plus encore : j’ai tâté, forcé un peu, et réalisé que ce morceau que je touchais, là, juste à mon niveau, mais aussi en levant la tête toute la structure du pied, et à coup sûr la tour entière, était en réalité en clipo, oui en cl…
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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