etape
/eɪˈtæp/noun
etape is a noun meaning “Alternative form of étape” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-T-A-P-E, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of etape is étapes or etapes.
What does etape mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative form of étape.
noun
- 1
A public storehouse.
- 2
Supplies issued to troops on the march.
- 3
The place where troops on the march halt overnight.
- 4
The distance marched during a day.
- 5
In Russia, a rest point for parties of prisoners in transit on foot
- 6
A stage of a multistage bicycle race.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce etape?
- /eɪˈtæp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of etape
- étapes plural
- etapes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is etape?
Etape appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does etape come from?
Borrowed from French étape, from Middle French estappe, from Old French estaple (“warehouse; a place where merchants bring their wares to be sold”), from Middle Dutch stapel (“warehouse; market”), from Old Dutch stapul, from Frankish *stapul. Sense 5 is a semantic loan from Russian эта́п (etáp). More at the doublet staple.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).