tapée
\ta.pe\
The verdict
“tapée” is uncommon French (frequency #55,636 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,636
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce rapportée verticalement sur la face extérieure des montants des dormants de croisée ou de porte, pour fixer les persiennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapee · tapée · French
tapée · rank #55,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,636
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tans
Nearest frequency peer: tans (-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 « tapée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tannerie
tannerie
44,368 corpus weight
- tanneries
tanneries
44,367 corpus weight
- tans
tans
44,366 corpus weight
- tapée
tapée
44,365 corpus weight
- tardy
tardy
44,363 corpus weight
- tartan
tartan
44,362 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapée is uncommon French at frequency #55,636 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.pe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tapée, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is tapée, spelled T-A-P-É-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce rapportée verticalement sur la face extérieure des montants des dormants de croisée ou de porte, pour fixer les persiennes.
- 2Grande quantité, flopée, foule, tas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et dire que les trois premiers sont mariés, qu'ils laissent derrière eux des femmes et une tapée d'enfants !
Il y a ici une tapée de peintres, ça pousse entre les pavés, j’en ai dégoté un la semaine dernière sous les combles de l’Escurial, —il dormait.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).