tapageuse
\ta.pa.ʒøz\
The verdict
“tapageuse” is uncommon French (frequency #87,199 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,199
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Personne qui fait du tapage, qui a l’habitude de faire du tapage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapageuse · tapageuse · French
tapageuse · rank #87,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,199
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tanja
Nearest frequency peer: Tanja (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tapageuse”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- séduites
séduites
12,805 corpus weight
- tacot
tacot
12,804 corpus weight
- Tanja
Tanja
12,803 corpus weight
- tapageuse
tapageuse
12,802 corpus weight
- Tarrant
Tarrant
12,800 corpus weight
- tasty
tasty
12,799 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tapageuse” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapageuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pa.ʒøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tapageuse” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tapageuse is uncommon French at frequency #87,199 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.pa.ʒøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui fait du tapage, qui a l’habitude de faire du tapage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tapageuse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tapageuse, spelled T-A-P-A-G-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui fait du tapage, qui a l’habitude de faire du tapage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapageuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le prince qui était son partenaire contre Gérard et la tapageuse miss Fayne, accueillait la victoire assez maussadement […]
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.