stap
The verdict
“stap” is uncommon French (frequency #89,200 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,200
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stap · stap · French
stap · rank #89,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,200
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Standish
Nearest frequency peer: Standish (-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 « stap »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- squire
squire
10,804 corpus weight
- srx
srx
10,803 corpus weight
- Standish
Standish
10,802 corpus weight
- stap
stap
10,801 corpus weight
- statutairem…
statutairement
10,799 corpus weight
- stiletto
stiletto
10,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stap » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stap » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stap is uncommon French at frequency #89,200 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stap, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is stap, spelled S-T-A-P.
Definition
- 1Pas.
- 2: Pas, allure, marche.
- 3Phase, étape.
- 4Démarche, requête.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Stap voor stap.
Een stap overslaan.
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.
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