tapaient
\ta.pɛ\
The verdict
“tapaient” is uncommon French (frequency #63,399 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,399
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de taper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapaient · tapaient · French
tapaient · rank #63,399 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,399
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH taboulé
Nearest frequency peer: taboulé (-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 « tapaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tabassent
tabassent
36,604 corpus weight
- taboulé
taboulé
36,603 corpus weight
- tapaient
tapaient
36,602 corpus weight
- taulier
taulier
36,601 corpus weight
- tauromachie
tauromachie
36,600 corpus weight
- Tayeb
Tayeb
36,599 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapaient is uncommon French at frequency #63,399 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de taper.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tapaient, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tapaient, spelled T-A-P-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de taper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce temps-là, on se moquait un peu de cette corporation des petites sténos-dactylos qui tapaient à longueur de journée avec tous leurs petits doigts !
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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