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tapear

Spanish, verb/tapeˈaɾ/

tapear is spelled T-A-P-E-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 31 million words in written Spanish, the 200,060th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapear is a Spanish verb meaning “to have tapas, to dine on tapas, particularly from bar to bar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does tapear mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to have tapas, to dine on tapas, particularly from bar to bar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of tapear

  • tapeo first-person present singular
  • tapeé first-person preterite singular
  • tapeado participle past
  • tapeando gerund
  • tapeada feminine participle past
  • tapeados masculine participle past
  • tapeadas feminine participle past
  • tapeas indicative informal present
  • tapeás indicative informal present
  • tapea indicative present singular
  • tapeamos first-person indicative plural
  • tapeáis indicative plural present
  • tapean indicative plural present
  • tapeaba first-person imperfect indicative
  • tapeabas imperfect indicative second-person
  • tapeábamos first-person imperfect indicative
  • tapeabais imperfect indicative plural
  • tapeaban imperfect indicative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce tapear?

  • /tapeˈaɾ/
  • [t̪a.peˈaɾ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is tapear in Spanish?

tapear appears about once in every 31 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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