tapadas
[t̪aˈpað̞as]
The verdict
“tapadas” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #51,958 among 34,400 “T” headwords), classed as a participle. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,958
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,400
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del femenino plural de tapado, participio de tapar o de taparse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapadas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Participle |
| IPA | [t̪aˈpað̞as] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tapadas” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tapadas is uncommon Spanish at frequency #51,958 among 34,400 “T” headwords, classed as aparticiple, transcribed [t̪aˈpað̞as]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forma del femenino plural de tapado, participio de tapar o de taparse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tapadas, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is tapadas, spelled T-A-P-A-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino plural de tapado, participio de tapar o de taparse.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “tapadas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is T-A-P-A-D-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [t̪aˈpað̞as] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.