tavu
\'tɑ.ʋu\
The verdict
“tavu” is uncommon French (frequency #65,560 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,560
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Syllabe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tavu · tavu · French
tavu · rank #65,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,560
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tassée
Nearest frequency peer: tassée (-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 « tavu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Taizé
Taizé
34,444 corpus weight
- tapir
tapir
34,443 corpus weight
- tassée
tassée
34,442 corpus weight
- tavu
tavu
34,441 corpus weight
- tennisman
tennisman
34,440 corpus weight
- termineront
termineront
34,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tavu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tavu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \'tɑ.ʋu\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tavu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tavu is uncommon French at frequency #65,560 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \'tɑ.ʋu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Syllabe.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tavu, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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, 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 tavu, spelled T-A-V-U.
Definition
- 1Syllabe.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).