tapait
\ta.pɛ\
The verdict
“tapait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,562. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,562
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de taper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapait · tapait · French
tapait · rank #29,562 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,562
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tangibles
Nearest frequency peer: tangibles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tapait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tae
tae
70,442 corpus weight
- tangibles
tangibles
70,440 corpus weight
- tapait
tapait
70,439 corpus weight
- tarot
tarot
70,438 corpus weight
- taser
taser
70,437 corpus weight
- tessa
tessa
70,436 corpus weight
What this shows « tapait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | tapait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tapait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tapait (IPA \ta.pɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,562 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de taper.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tapait, with forms such as "atpait", "taapit", and "tapaitt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "tapis", "trait", "tapie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tapait, spelled T-A-P-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de taper.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait des gluaux perfectionnés pour les alouettes et les cailles, il tapait à coup de pierres dans les épaisses nuées de sansonnets, que semblent apporter les grands vents d’automne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atpait
- taapit
- tapaitt
- tapati
- tapiat
- tappait
- tpaait
- ttapait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tapait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).