taureau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,395
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
taureau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mâle reproducteur de l’espèce bovine dont la femelle est la vache. Pronounced \tɔ.ʁo\. It ranks #9,395 in French word frequency. Often confused with Trudeau and terreau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taureau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tɔ.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taureau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tɔ.ʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,395 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for taureau, with forms such as "atureau", "tarueau", and "tauerau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Trudeau", "terreau", "taureaux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is taureau, spelled T-A-U-R-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mâle reproducteur de l’espèce bovine dont la femelle est la vache.
- 2Le taureau de combat, race de cette espèce sélectionnée et élevée pour la tauromachie.
- 3Mâle reproducteur des élans.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement passant, vilené, avec la queue au-dessus du dos, contrairement à la vache qui a la queue le long du flanc. À rapprocher de bison, bœuf, buffle et vache.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atureau,tarueau,tauerau,tauraeu,taureua,taurreau,ttaureau,tuareau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for taureau
Misspelling Variants of "taureau"
Frequency rank: #9,395 in French
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