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“table” and “tatie” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,013
“table” frequency rank
#45,906
“tatie” frequency rank
46919
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature table tatie
Definition Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers usages. Tante.

Where the eye mixes table and tatie

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
table
5 ch
tatie

Visual trap between table and tatie

A purely visual mix-up. table (\tabl\) and tatie (\ta.ti\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46919, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

table is recorded at frequency rank #1,013, classified as anoun, pronounced \tabl\. tatie is at rank #45,906, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ta.ti\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 46919, this pair ranks #191,020 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of table vs tatie

Shared letters: aet. Private to "table": bl. Private to "tatie": i.

"table" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "tatie" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tableatble · tabble · tabel · tablle · talbe · tbale · ttable
  • tatieattie · taite · tatei · tattie · ttaie · ttatie

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "table" for "tatie" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\tabl\ versus \ta.ti\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "table" or "tatie" show up more?
"table" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,013 in our French list, against #45,906 for "tatie". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "table" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tatie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #191,020 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "table" and "tatie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tartre vs tatie". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #191,020 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list