tapenade
French, noun\ta.pə.nad\
tapenade is spelled T-A-P-E-N-A-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,051st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapenade is a French feminine noun meaning “tapenade” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Préparation culinaire à base d’olives noires ou vertes, de câpres et quelques anchois dessalés et broyés avec…”.
What does tapenade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetapenade
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tapenade
- tapenades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tapenade?
- \ta.pə.nad\
- \ta.pnad\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tapenade in French?
tapenade appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).