taulier
\to.lje\
The verdict
“taulier” is uncommon French (frequency #63,400 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,400
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patron, gérant d’un hôtel ou d’un restaurant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taulier · taulier · French
taulier · rank #63,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,400
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapaient
Nearest frequency peer: tapaient (-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 « taulier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabassent
tabassent
36,604 corpus weight
- taboulé
taboulé
36,603 corpus weight
- tapaient
tapaient
36,602 corpus weight
- taulier
taulier
36,601 corpus weight
- tauromachie
tauromachie
36,600 corpus weight
- Tayeb
Tayeb
36,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « taulier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taulier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \to.lje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taulier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taulier is uncommon French at frequency #63,400 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \to.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
taulier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is taulier, spelled T-A-U-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Patron, gérant d’un hôtel ou d’un restaurant.
- 2Patron d’une maison close, d’un lupanar.
- 3Patron en général (au sens propre comme au sens figuré).
- 4Commissaire de police.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taulier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le verre: Le taulier donne à gouloter ce qu'il aime, soit 300 références de vins d'auteur et 14 jajas au verre (entre 5,5 et 12,50 euros les 12 cl).
Nous partions à l’aube du refuge ou de l’auberge. Parfois le taulier nous avançait d’une dizaine de kilomètres jusqu’au versant à gravir.
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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