tapioca
Spanish, noun/taˈpjoka/
tapioca is spelled T-A-P-I-O-C-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish, the 74,340th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapioca is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “tapioca” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Manihot esculenta) Fécula obtenida de la raíz de la mandioca con la que se hace una nutritiva sopa”.
What does tapioca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetapioca
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Manihot esculenta) Fécula obtenida de la raíz de la mandioca con la que se hace una nutritiva sopa. 2. Sopa hecha con la fécula de la raíz de la mandioca.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tapioca
- tapiocas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tapioca?
- /taˈpjoka/
- [t̪aˈpjo.ka]
- [t̪aˈpjoka]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tapioca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tapioca in Spanish?
tapioca appears about once in every 4 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).