taper
French, verb/ta.pe/
taper is spelled T-A-P-E-R (5 letters) and appears 22 times per million words in written French, the 3,526th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Taper is a French verb meaning “to slap, knock, beat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Frapper du plat de la main, battre, donner un ou plusieurs coups”.
What does taper mean in English?
verb
- 1
to slap, knock, beat
- 2
to type (use a keyboard or typewriter)
- 3
to ask (someone) for money, to ask to borrow some money from
- 4
to hit, to beat, to rap
- 5
to beat down (of the sun); to go to one's head (of wine etc.)
- 6
slangto stink, pong, reek
- 7
slangto put away (a meal etc.)
Je me suis tapé un bon petit hamburger hier soir.
- 8
slangvulgarto fuck (have sex)
Il s'est tapé la fille de son patron.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Frapper du plat de la main, battre, donner un ou plusieurs coups. 2. Frapper, cogner, toquer pour produire un bruit. 3. Frapper trois coups pour annoncer le début du spectacle. 4. Mal jouer de la musique en frappant sans nuance sur un instrument.
verb: 1. Boucher, fermer, couvrir. Boucher avec une tape. 2. Se couvrir le visage.
noun: 1. Raccord de fibre optique. 2. Clé de court-circuit placée entre les bornes d'un galvanomètre pour éviter le passage d'une trop forte intensité de courant électrique. 3. Type de coupe de cheveux en dégradé où la longueur des cheveux augmente progressivement sur les côtés et à l’arrière, démarrant presque à ras pour finir en longueur sur le dessus.
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 taper
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tapant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tapé participle past
- tape first-person indicative present
- tapes indicative present second-person
- tapons first-person indicative plural
- tapez indicative plural present
- tapent indicative plural present
- tapais first-person imperfect indicative
- tapait imperfect indicative singular
- tapions first-person imperfect indicative
- tapiez imperfect indicative plural
- tapaient imperfect indicative plural
- tapai first-person historic indicative
- tapas historic indicative past
- tapa historic indicative past
- tapâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce taper?
- /ta.pe/
- \ta.pe\
- [ta.pe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to taper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is taper in French?
taper appears 22 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).