tapia
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
- Talma
Talma
18,384 corpus weight
- Tamar
Tamar
18,383 corpus weight
- Tami
Tami
18,382 corpus weight
- tapia
tapia
18,381 corpus weight
- tapotant
tapotant
18,380 corpus weight
- taquineries
taquineries
18,379 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapia » en français
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
- 1Arbre de Madagascar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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