tapenade
\ta.pə.nad\
The verdict
“tapenade” is uncommon French (frequency #80,699 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,699
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Préparation culinaire à base d’olives noires ou vertes, de câpres et quelques anchois dessalés et broyés avec de l’ail et de l’huile d’olive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapenade · tapenade · French
tapenade · rank #80,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,699
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taoufik
Nearest frequency peer: Taoufik (-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 « tapenade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tamoule
tamoule
19,306 corpus weight
- Taoufik
Taoufik
19,303 corpus weight
- tapenade
tapenade
19,302 corpus weight
- tapissés
tapissés
19,301 corpus weight
- taras
taras
19,300 corpus weight
- tassel
tassel
19,299 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapenade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapenade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pə.nad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapenade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapenade is uncommon French at frequency #80,699 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.pə.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Préparation culinaire à base d’olives noires ou vertes, de câpres et quelques anchois dessalés et broyés avec de l’ail et de l’huile d’olive.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tapenade in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tapenade, spelled T-A-P-E-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Préparation culinaire à base d’olives noires ou vertes, de câpres et quelques anchois dessalés et broyés avec de l’ail et de l’huile d’olive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapenade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai tellement mangé de tapenade à l’apéritif que je n’ai plus faim.
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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