tapioca
\ta.pjɔ.ka\
The verdict
“tapioca” is uncommon French (frequency #57,633 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,633
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fécule de racine de manioc, lavée avec soin et bien séchée, utilisée par exemple pour épaissir des potages.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapioca · tapioca · French
tapioca · rank #57,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,633
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tamerlan
Nearest frequency peer: tamerlan (-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 « tapioca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- talismans
talismans
42,371 corpus weight
- tamaris
tamaris
42,370 corpus weight
- tamerlan
tamerlan
42,369 corpus weight
- tapioca
tapioca
42,368 corpus weight
- taxant
taxant
42,367 corpus weight
- taz
taz
42,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapioca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapioca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pjɔ.ka\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapioca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapioca is uncommon French at frequency #57,633 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.pjɔ.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fécule de racine de manioc, lavée avec soin et bien séchée, utilisée par exemple pour épaissir des potages.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tapioca, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 tapioca, spelled T-A-P-I-O-C-A.
Definition
- 1Fécule de racine de manioc, lavée avec soin et bien séchée, utilisée par exemple pour épaissir des potages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapioca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre personnel renouvelé se composait d’une cuisinière, vieille fille sale, avide, grincheuse, dont les talents en cuisine ne s’étendaient pas au delà du tapioca, de la blanquette de veau, de la salade ; […]
M. Duthoit a-t-il compris ? Mystère. Il est aux prises avec son potage tapioca et ne lèvera le nez de son assiette que lorsque celle-ci sera vide…
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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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