tapen
[ˈt̪apẽn]
The verdict
“tapen” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #64,221 among 3,005 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,221
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de tapar o de taparse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tapen · tapen · Spanish
tapen · rank #64,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,221
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tantear
Nearest frequency peer: tantear (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “tapen”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- suple
suple
35,787 corpus weight
- sándalo
sándalo
35,784 corpus weight
- sépalos
sépalos
35,783 corpus weight
- tantear
tantear
35,781 corpus weight
- tapen
tapen
35,780 corpus weight
- Tejos
Tejos
35,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “tapen” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt̪apẽn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “tapen” en español
Rare enough to double-check
tapen is uncommon Spanish at frequency #64,221 among 3,005 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈt̪apẽn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tapen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is tapen, spelled T-A-P-E-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del presente de subjuntivo de tapar o de taparse.
- 2Segunda persona del plural (ustedes) del imperativo de tapar o del imperativo negativo 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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