taub
\taʊ̯p\
The verdict
“taub” is uncommon French (frequency #87,203 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,203
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sourd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taub · taub · French
taub · rank #87,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,203
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tasty
Nearest frequency peer: tasty (-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 « taub »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tapageuse
tapageuse
12,802 corpus weight
- Tarrant
Tarrant
12,800 corpus weight
- tasty
tasty
12,799 corpus weight
- taub
taub
12,798 corpus weight
- Temporis
Temporis
12,796 corpus weight
- terranova
terranova
12,795 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taub » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taʊ̯p\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taub » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taub is uncommon French at frequency #87,203 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \taʊ̯p\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for taub in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is taub, spelled T-A-U-B.
Definition
- 1Sourd.
- 2Engourdi, Gourd.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zu Eduards ersten Erinnerungen gehört, mit fünf Jahren an einer schweren Mittelohrentzündung gelitten zu haben. Eiter quoll aus seinen Ohren, und mehrere Wochen lang war er taub.
Die Menschen, die mich besuchen kommen (...) werden über die Nässe und die Kälte klagen. Darüber, dass sie erst die Scheibe freikratzen mussten, mit tauben Fingern, bevor sie losfahren konnten.
Synonyms
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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