taper sur la gueule
The verdict
“taper sur la gueule” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Donner des coups de poing sur la figure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taper sur la gueule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pe syʁ la ɡœl\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “taper sur la gueule” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for taper sur la gueule is 19 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.pe syʁ la ɡœl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Donner des coups de poing sur la figure.".
No misspelling variants are generated for taper sur la gueule in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is taper sur la gueule, spelled T-A-P-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Donner des coups de poing sur la figure.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-P-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-A- -G-U-E-U-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ta.pe syʁ la ɡœl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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