tapette
\ta.pɛt\
The verdict
“tapette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,557. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,557
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite tape faite avec la main.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapette · tapette · French
tapette · rank #26,557 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,557
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tariq
Nearest frequency peer: Tariq (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tapette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- SVT
SVT
73,446 corpus weight
- tapette
tapette
73,444 corpus weight
- Tariq
Tariq
73,443 corpus weight
- tax
tax
73,442 corpus weight
- teaser
teaser
73,441 corpus weight
- terminait
terminait
73,440 corpus weight
What this shows « tapette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tapette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tapette (IPA \ta.pɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,557 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tapette, with forms such as "atpette", "taeptte", and "tapete". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "tarente", "tapettes", "tapent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tapette, spelled T-A-P-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petite tape faite avec la main.
- 2Langue.
- 3Bavard, personne à la langue bien pendue.
- 4Homme homosexuel.
- 5Personne efféminée, sans courage, aux goûts de fille, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faire marcher sa tapette.
Mᵐᵉ Cottard ne distingua que les mots « de la confrérie » et « tapette », et comme dans le langage du docteur le premier désignait la race juive et le second les langues bien pendues, Mᵐᵉ Cottard conclut que M. de Charlus devait être un Israélite bavard.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atpette
- taeptte
- tapete
- tapetet
- tappette
- taptete
- tpaette
- ttapette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tapette - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).