sextape

\sɛks.tep\

/\sɛks.tep\/ noun

The verdict

“sextape” is uncommon French (frequency #56,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,923
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vidéo érotique ou pornographique amateur destinée à un visionnage privé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-sextape · sextape · French

sextape · rank #56,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,923
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH señora

Nearest frequency peer: señora (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « sextape »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « sextape » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sextape
PropertyValue
Headwordsextape
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\sɛks.tep\
Letters7
Frequency rank#56,923
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « sextape » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).sextapetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « señora » (#56,924), « Sevilla » (#56,921), « shopper » (#56,925). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « sextape » est au #56,923. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sextape is uncommon French at frequency #56,923 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɛks.tep\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vidéo érotique ou pornographique amateur destinée à un visionnage privé.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sextape, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sextape, spelled S-E-X-T-A-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vidéo érotique ou pornographique amateur destinée à un visionnage privé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sextape appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une enseignante a malencontreusement diffusé à ses élèves une sextape d’elle-même avec son fiancé.
  2. Une rumeur a même circulé à l’effet que, pour se faire embaucher, Shia LaBeouf aurait fait parvenir au réalisateur un sextape dans lequel on le voit en pleine action!

Synonyms

vidéo coquine

This word in other languages

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sextape"?
"sextape" is spelled S-E-X-T-A-P-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sɛks.tep\.
What does "sextape" mean?
As a noun, "sextape" means: Vidéo érotique ou pornographique amateur destinée à un visionnage privé.
How do you pronounce "sextape"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sextape" is \sɛks.tep\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sextape" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sextape", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list