tatillon
French, adjective/ta.ti.jɔ̃/
tatillon is spelled T-A-T-I-L-L-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 74,663rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tatillon is a French adjective meaning “pernickety, picky, fussy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est trop minutieux, qui attache de l’importance aux moindres détails”.
What does tatillon mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pernickety, picky, fussy
tatillon sur
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est trop minutieux, qui attache de l’importance aux moindres détails.
adjective: 1. Variante orthographique de tatillon.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tatillon
- tatillonne feminine
- tatillons masculine plural
- tatillonnes feminine plural
- tâtillon
- tâtillons plural masculine
- tâtillonne singular feminine
- tâtillonnes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tatillon?
- /ta.ti.jɔ̃/
- \ta.ti.jɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tatillon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tatillon in French?
tatillon appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).