Taxon
\ˈtaksɔn\
The verdict
“Taxon” is uncommon French (frequency #89,238 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,238
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Taxon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taxon · Taxon · French
Taxon · rank #89,238 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,238
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taquiné
Nearest frequency peer: taquiné (-2 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 « Taxon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- talos
talos
10,768 corpus weight
- taquiné
taquiné
10,765 corpus weight
- Taxon
Taxon
10,763 corpus weight
- tendresses
tendresses
10,761 corpus weight
- terro
terro
10,760 corpus weight
- thalamus
thalamus
10,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Taxon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Taxon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈtaksɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Taxon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Taxon is uncommon French at frequency #89,238 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈtaksɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Taxon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Taxon, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Taxon, spelled T-A-X-O-N.
Definition
- 1Taxon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Taxon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Einige Insekten konnten wir bis zur Art bestimen, bei anderen mussten wir es bei höheren Taxa bewenden lassen.
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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