tappan
"tappan" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tappan” is uncommon English (frequency #50,831 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,831
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tappan · tappan · English
tappan · rank #50,831 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,831
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Talley
Nearest frequency peer: Talley (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “tappan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- systemically
systemically
49,173 corpus weight
- Talley
Talley
49,171 corpus weight
- tappan
tappan
49,170 corpus weight
- taupe
taupe
49,169 corpus weight
- Tecumseh
Tecumseh
49,167 corpus weight
- testy
testy
49,166 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tappan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tappan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tappan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tappan is uncommon English at frequency #50,831 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tappan in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Malay tapang. The correct English form is tappan, spelled T-A-P-P-A-N.
Definition
- 1An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tappan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.
Two minutes more, and the top-knot of the lofty tappan before the house was thrashing the reeds out of the thatch—there was a shriek as of a thousand buzz-saws—a fusillade of branches and pebbles—and the squall had gone yelling away into the east.
Etymology
From Malay tapang.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).