tapi
\ta.pi\
The verdict
“tapi” is uncommon French (frequency #56,965 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,965
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe tapir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapi · tapi · French
tapi · rank #56,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,965
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH talks
Nearest frequency peer: talks (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tapi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taka
taka
43,038 corpus weight
- talks
talks
43,037 corpus weight
- tapi
tapi
43,036 corpus weight
- tardi
tardi
43,035 corpus weight
- tarir
tarir
43,034 corpus weight
- Tarragone
Tarragone
43,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapi is uncommon French at frequency #56,965 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe tapir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tapi, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 tapi, spelled T-A-P-I.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe tapir.
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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