tapotant
\ta.pɔ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“tapotant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,621 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,621
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de tapoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapotant · tapotant · French
tapotant · rank #81,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,621
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapia
Nearest frequency peer: tapia (-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 « tapotant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tamar
Tamar
18,383 corpus weight
- Tami
Tami
18,382 corpus weight
- tapia
tapia
18,381 corpus weight
- tapotant
tapotant
18,380 corpus weight
- taquineries
taquineries
18,379 corpus weight
- teal
teal
18,377 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapotant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapotant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pɔ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapotant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapotant is uncommon French at frequency #81,621 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pɔ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de tapoter.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tapotant in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 tapotant, spelled T-A-P-O-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de tapoter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapotant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il eut un sourire incertain en tapotant résolument les touches du code alphanumérique.
- C’est pourquoi mon gars ? Me lance une stature transpirante qui se relève du derrière du zinc en se tapotant le front, s’épongeant l’encolure en cussant, passant un coup circulaire du même torchon couleur champignon sur une flaque filant par les flancs du comptoir.
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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