tâter
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,196
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tâter is aFrenchverb. It means: Toucher, manier doucement une chose, pour connaître son état. Pronounced \tɑ.te\. Often confused with tte and tête.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tâter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \tɑ.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tâter is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɑ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,196 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tâter, with forms such as "tater", "ttâer", and "ttâter". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tte", "tête", "tuer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tâter, spelled T-Â-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toucher, manier doucement une chose, pour connaître son état.
- 2Explorer pour obtenir de premiers rudiments de connaissance.
- 3Essayer de connaître les dispositions, les sentiments de quelqu’un sur quelque chose
- 4Essayer de connaître l’état d’esprit d’une personne.
- 5Fréquenter quelqu'un, le plus souvent avec une connotation sexuelle.
- 6(transitif indirect) Goûter à quelque chose.
- 7(transitif indirect) Essayer quelque chose, connaître par expérience ce que c’est.
- 8(réfléchi) S’examiner, se consulter, se sonder sur quelque chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: tater,ttâer,ttâter,tâetr,tâterr,tâtre,tâtter,âtter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tâter
Misspelling Variants of "tâter"
Frequency rank: #36,196 in French
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Nearby French words
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