tapin
\ta.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“tapin” is uncommon French (frequency #64,124 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,124
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui bat le tambour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapin · tapin · French
tapin · rank #64,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,124
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tangerine
Nearest frequency peer: tangerine (-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 « tapin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sélecteur
sélecteur
35,880 corpus weight
- taillant
taillant
35,879 corpus weight
- tangerine
tangerine
35,878 corpus weight
- tapin
tapin
35,877 corpus weight
- terminaient
terminaient
35,876 corpus weight
- territorial…
territorialité
35,875 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapin is uncommon French at frequency #64,124 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tapin, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tapin, spelled T-A-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Celui qui bat le tambour.
- 2Travail.
- 3Racolage sur la voie publique.
- 4Prostituée (ou prostitué).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelquefois cependant, au meilleur moment de la sieste, des éclats de tambour me réveillaient en sursaut. C’étaient de malheureux tapins qui venaient s’exercer en bas, sur la route.
Ce tambour seul, et non les douze coups de minuit, sonnait pour moi l’ouverture éclatante de la nouvelle année, l’avènement mystérieux après quoi haletait le monde entier, suspendu au premier rrran du vieux tapin de mon village.
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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