tapageur
The verdict
“tapageur” is uncommon French (frequency #82,513 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,513
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait du tapage, qui a l’habitude de faire du tapage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapageur · tapageur · French
tapageur · rank #82,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tanzanien
Nearest frequency peer: tanzanien (-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 « tapageur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tamponneuses
tamponneuses
17,491 corpus weight
- tano
tano
17,490 corpus weight
- tanzanien
tanzanien
17,489 corpus weight
- tapageur
tapageur
17,488 corpus weight
- tarots
tarots
17,487 corpus weight
- tatamis
tatamis
17,486 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapageur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapageur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapageur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapageur is uncommon French at frequency #82,513 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tapageur in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 tapageur, spelled T-A-P-A-G-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui fait du tapage, qui a l’habitude de faire du tapage.
- 2Qui affecte l’éclat ; qui est voyant ou criard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapageur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils organisèrent des manifestations tapageuses dégénérant souvent en pugilats, contre des universitaires ou des dramaturges juifs.
L’enfant tapageur se transforma, du jour au lendemain, en un garçon économe et égoïste, mûri hâtivement dans le sens de ses instincts par l’étrange vie de gaspillage qu’il ne pouvait voir maintenant autour de lui sans en avoir le cœur crevé.
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.
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