Taupin
The verdict
“Taupin” is uncommon French (frequency #80,703 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,703
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taupin · Taupin · French
Taupin · rank #80,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,703
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tassel
Nearest frequency peer: tassel (-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 « Taupin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tapissés
tapissés
19,301 corpus weight
- taras
taras
19,300 corpus weight
- tassel
tassel
19,299 corpus weight
- Taupin
Taupin
19,298 corpus weight
- tchador
tchador
19,297 corpus weight
- Tcheliabinsk
Tcheliabinsk
19,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Taupin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taupin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Taupin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Taupin is uncommon French at frequency #80,703 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Taupin has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Taupin, spelled T-A-U-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Taupin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Âgé de 29 ans, l’homme, interpellé après s’être réfugié dans le local à vélos d’un immeuble, a reconnu « être à l’origine des tirs, mais prétend simplement s’être défendu », a indiqué Sophie Taupin, procureure adjointe de Bourg-en-Bresse, dans un communiqué.
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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