tapette à mouche
\ta.pɛ.t‿a muʃ\
The verdict
“tapette à mouche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument pour tuer les insectes en les frappant avec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapette-a-mouche · tapette à mouche · French
tapette à mouche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 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 | tapette à mouche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pɛ.t‿a muʃ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapette à mouche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapette à mouche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.pɛ.t‿a muʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument pour tuer les insectes en les frappant avec.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tapette à mouche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tapette à mouche, spelled T-A-P-E-T-T-E- -À- -M-O-U-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Instrument pour tuer les insectes en les frappant avec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapette à mouche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– À un moment, le père voulut chasser une grosse guêpe qui butinait des emballages d’Apéricubes. Mais comme elle ne voulait rien savoir, il alla chercher une tapette à mouche électrique. Ça fit bzzz, une odeur de cramé et la bestiole resta sur le dos.
This word in other languages
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.