tatillon
\ta.ti.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“tatillon” is uncommon French (frequency #75,288 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,288
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est trop minutieux, qui attache de l’importance aux moindres détails.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tatillon · tatillon · French
tatillon · rank #75,288 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,288
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tarderont
Nearest frequency peer: tarderont (-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 « tatillon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tadashi
Tadashi
24,717 corpus weight
- taki
taki
24,716 corpus weight
- tali
tali
24,715 corpus weight
- tarderont
tarderont
24,714 corpus weight
- tatillon
tatillon
24,713 corpus weight
- taxonomie
taxonomie
24,710 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tatillon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tatillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ta.ti.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tatillon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tatillon is uncommon French at frequency #75,288 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ta.ti.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est trop minutieux, qui attache de l’importance aux moindres détails.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tatillon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tatillon, spelled T-A-T-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Qui est trop minutieux, qui attache de l’importance aux moindres détails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tatillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tatillon, maniaque, obnubilé par les détails et sujet à transformer ses meilleurs amis en ennemis à force d’inflexibilité, voici Alfred Marshall, qui connut malgré tout la consécration professionnelle.
Jamais contente, tatillonne et rancunière, elle remonte chaque jour un peu plus avant dans le passé en pleurnichant, à la recherche d’une terre propre.
This word in other languages
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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