tapete
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,176
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
tapete is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pedazo de tela, hule u otro material decorativo, generalmente tejido, con que se cubren las mesas y muebles. Pronounced [t̪aˈpet̪e]. Often confused with tate and tape.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapete |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪aˈpet̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tapete is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [t̪aˈpet̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,176 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tapete, with forms such as "atpete", "taepte", and "tapeet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tate", "tape", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is tapete, spelled T-A-P-E-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedazo de tela, hule u otro material decorativo, generalmente tejido, con que se cubren las mesas y muebles.
- 2Tejido con que se cubre parte del piso de escaleras, pasillos y habitaciones para decoración y abrigo. Alfombra de tamaño pequeño.
- 3Tejido resistente con que se cubren de pared a pared los pisos interiores de una edificación.
- 4En el juego de la ruleta, tapete que tiene una serie de recuadros para que los jugadores hagan sus apuestas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atpete,taepte,tapeet,tapette,tappete,taptee,tpaete,ttapete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tapete"
Frequency rank: #28,176 in Spanish
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