tapir
\ta.piʁ\
The verdict
“tapir” is uncommon French (frequency #65,558 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,558
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’ongulé périssodactyle d’Amérique tropicale ou d’Asie, qui a nez long et qui est nocturne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapir · tapir · French
tapir · rank #65,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,558
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Taizé
Nearest frequency peer: Taizé (-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 « tapir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taboo
taboo
34,445 corpus weight
- Taizé
Taizé
34,444 corpus weight
- tapir
tapir
34,443 corpus weight
- tassée
tassée
34,442 corpus weight
- tavu
tavu
34,441 corpus weight
- tennisman
tennisman
34,440 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.piʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapir is uncommon French at frequency #65,558 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ta.piʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce d’ongulé périssodactyle d’Amérique tropicale ou d’Asie, qui a nez long et qui est nocturne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tapir in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tapir, spelled T-A-P-I-R.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’ongulé périssodactyle d’Amérique tropicale ou d’Asie, qui a nez long et qui est nocturne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tapir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous […] surprenions tous les secrets de la jungle : la goinfrerie du tapir qui, sitôt réveillé, se mettait à avaler des fourmis ; […].
This word in other languages
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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