taulard
\to.laʁ\
The verdict
“taulard” is uncommon French (frequency #76,166 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,166
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne détenue en prison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taulard · taulard · French
taulard · rank #76,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,166
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tanguer
Nearest frequency peer: tanguer (-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 « taulard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Takahata
Takahata
23,838 corpus weight
- tanguer
tanguer
23,836 corpus weight
- taulard
taulard
23,835 corpus weight
- Tauride
Tauride
23,834 corpus weight
- Taverny
Taverny
23,833 corpus weight
- taza
taza
23,832 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taulard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taulard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to.laʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taulard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taulard is uncommon French at frequency #76,166 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \to.laʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne détenue en prison.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for taulard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is taulard, spelled T-A-U-L-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Personne détenue en prison.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how taulard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'un côté, vous aviez le taulard, vêtu du droguet réglementaire, chaussé de sabots et tondu à ras. De l'autre, le surveillant, impeccablement sanglé dans son uniforme, casquetté de frais, astiqué du ceinturon, agitant des clés nickelées, […].
Synonyms
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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