tapisser
\ta.pi.se\
The verdict
“tapisser” is uncommon French (frequency #79,793 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,793
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revêtir ou orner de tapisserie les murs d’une salle, d’une chambre, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapisser · tapisser · French
tapisser · rank #79,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tangos
Nearest frequency peer: tangos (-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 « tapisser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tamazight
tamazight
20,212 corpus weight
- tangentes
tangentes
20,210 corpus weight
- tangos
tangos
20,209 corpus weight
- tapisser
tapisser
20,208 corpus weight
- TDM
TDM
20,207 corpus weight
- Thibert
Thibert
20,204 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapisser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pi.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapisser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapisser is uncommon French at frequency #79,793 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pi.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tapisser in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tapisser, spelled T-A-P-I-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Revêtir ou orner de tapisserie les murs d’une salle, d’une chambre, etc.
- 2Couvrir et revêtir une surface, en parlant de diverses choses.
- 3Faire de la tapisserie à l’aiguille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapisser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tapisser une salle, une chambre.
Tapisser une chambre de papier peint.
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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