tapoté
French, verb
tapoté is spelled T-A-P-O-T-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,881st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tapoté is a French verb meaning “past participle of tapoter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, tapote is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”.
What does tapoté mean in English?
verb
- 1
past participle of tapoter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petite tape.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tapoté
- tapotée feminine
- tapotés masculine plural
- tapotées feminine plural
- tapotes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tapoté in French?
tapoté appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).