tapoter
\ta.pɔ.te\
The verdict
“tapoter” is uncommon French (frequency #59,677 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,677
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Donner de petits coups, des tapotes à plusieurs reprises.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tapoter · tapoter · French
tapoter · rank #59,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,677
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tatin
Nearest frequency peer: tatin (+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 « tapoter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- séquestrer
séquestrer
40,328 corpus weight
- séquestrés
séquestrés
40,327 corpus weight
- tabler
tabler
40,326 corpus weight
- tapoter
tapoter
40,324 corpus weight
- tatin
tatin
40,323 corpus weight
- tchi
tchi
40,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tapoter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapoter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ta.pɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tapoter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tapoter is uncommon French at frequency #59,677 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ta.pɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tapoter, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tapoter, spelled T-A-P-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Donner de petits coups, des tapotes à plusieurs reprises.
- 2Jouer mal ou négligemment, en parlant d’un pianiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tapoter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant qu’elle s’asseyait sur le talus, tapotant sa joue comme on tapote une jupe froissée, il sentait des larmes, grosses comme des remords, lui monter aux yeux, mais la pression était cependant trop faible et elles s’arrêtèrent à sa gorge.
En même temps, il glissait sa large patte sous la jupe de la fille qui ne broncha point et tapotait délicatement une callipygie orgueilleuse et prévenante.
Synonyms
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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