Which to use
“table” is a noun and “tapé” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,013
- “table” frequency rank
- #10,956
- “tapé” frequency rank
- 11969
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | table | tapé |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Surface plane de bois, de pierre, de marbre, etc., posée sur un ou plusieurs pieds et qui sert à divers usages. | Se dit particulièrement de certains fruits aplatis et séchés au four. |
Where the eye mixes table and tapé
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: table is \tabl\ while tapé is \ta.pe\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11969, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
table is recorded at frequency rank #1,013, classified as anoun, pronounced \tabl\. tapé is at rank #10,956, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ta.pe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 11969, this pair ranks #407,081 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of table vs tapé
Shared letters: at. Private to "table": bel. Private to "tapé": pé.
"table" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV · "tapé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- table ← atble · tabble · tabel · tablle · talbe · tbale · ttable