tapioca
French, noun/ta.pjɔ.ka/
tapioca is spelled T-A-P-I-O-C-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,169th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapioca is a French masculine noun meaning “tapioca” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fécule de racine de manioc, lavée avec soin et bien séchée, utilisée par exemple pour épaissir des potages”.
What does tapioca mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetapioca
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fécule de racine de manioc, lavée avec soin et bien séchée, utilisée par exemple pour épaissir des potages.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tapioca
- tapiocas plural
- tapioka
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tapioca?
- /ta.pjɔ.ka/
- \ta.pjɔ.ka\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tapioca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tapioca in French?
tapioca appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).