tap
\tap\
The verdict
“tap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,887) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,887
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom qu’on donne à des pièces de bois qui servent à soutenir les pierriers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tap · tap · French
tap · rank #26,887 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,887
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH sécurisés
Nearest frequency peer: sécurisés (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tap »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- synchro
synchro
73,117 corpus weight
- synergie
synergie
73,116 corpus weight
- sécurisés
sécurisés
73,115 corpus weight
- tap
tap
73,114 corpus weight
- tardives
tardives
73,113 corpus weight
- tarzan
tarzan
73,112 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tap » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tap |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tap »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tap is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "te", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tap\. Frequency #26,887 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Nom qu’on donne à des pièces de bois qui servent à soutenir les pierriers.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tap in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "te", "TV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tap, spelled T-A-P.
Definition
- 1Nom qu’on donne à des pièces de bois qui servent à soutenir les pierriers.
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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