tapis
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,026
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tapis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’étoffe, tissu de laine, de soie, etc., dont on couvre une table, une estrade, le parquet d’une chambre, etc. Pronounced \ta.pi\. It ranks #4,026 in French word frequency. Often confused with tas and TPS.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.pi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tapis is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.pi\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,026 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tapis, with forms such as "atpis", "taips", and "tapiss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tas", "TPS", "taxi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tapis, spelled T-A-P-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce d’étoffe, tissu de laine, de soie, etc., dont on couvre une table, une estrade, le parquet d’une chambre, etc.
- 2Sorte de drap vert qui est fortement tendu sur la table d’un billard.
- 3Sujet de conversation, de débat.
- 4Sol.
- 5Ce qui recouvre le sol à la manière d’un tapis.
- 6L’ensemble des jetons que possède un joueur. En interjection, il signifie « faire tapis ».
- 7Fond sonore qui accompagne les interventions parlées.
- 8Hôtel mal famé (ellipse de tapis-franc).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atpis,taips,tapiss,tappis,tapsi,tpais,ttapis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tapis
Misspelling Variants of "tapis"
Frequency rank: #4,026 in French
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