tapia

noun

The verdict

“tapia” is uncommon French (frequency #81,620 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,620
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre de Madagascar.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tapia · tapia · French

tapia · rank #81,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,620
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Tami

Nearest frequency peer: Tami (-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 « tapia »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tapia
PropertyValue
Headwordtapia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#81,620
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « tapia » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).tapiatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Tami » (#81,619), « tapotant » (#81,621), « Tamar » (#81,618). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tapia » est au #81,620. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tapia is uncommon French at frequency #81,620 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arbre de Madagascar.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tapia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tapia, spelled T-A-P-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arbre de Madagascar.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tapia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le tapia est arbre endémique des hauts-plateaux de Madagascar.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tapia"?
"tapia" is spelled T-A-P-I-A.
What does "tapia" mean?
As a noun, "tapia" means: Arbre de Madagascar.
What language does "tapia" come from?
"tapia" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tapia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list