taper sur le système
\ta.pe syʁ lə sis.tɛm\
The verdict
“taper sur le système” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Irriter ou agacer au plus haut point.
Corpus desk
Index FR-taper-sur-le-systeme · taper sur le système · French
taper sur le système · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | taper sur le système |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pe syʁ lə sis.tɛm\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « taper sur le système » en français
Rare enough to double-check
taper sur le système is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pe syʁ lə sis.tɛm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for taper sur le système, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is taper sur le système, spelled T-A-P-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E- -S-Y-S-T-È-M-E.
Definition
- 1Irriter ou agacer au plus haut point.
- 2Perturber le psychisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how taper sur le système appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Un grand maigre… Évidemment, à cet âge, ils sont tous plus ou moins maigres, sauf le charcutier… Mais un maigre d’un genre à part, avec des lunettes, des cheveux partagés par une raie, un air tellement comme il faut et tellement timide qu’il me tapait sur le système…
– S'ils ne le retrouvent pas, tant pis, mais bon débarras ! Ce cheval commençait à me taper sur le système…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.