tapear
Portuguese, verb/ta.piˈa(ʁ)/
tapear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to trick, to fool” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “enganar”.
What does tapear mean in English?
verb
- 1
Brazilinformalto trick, to fool
verb
- 1
alternative form of tapetar (“to carpet”)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. enganar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tapear
- tapeio first-person present singular
- tapeei first-person preterite singular
- tapeado participle past
- tapeares infinitive second-person singular
- tapearmos first-person infinitive plural
- tapeardes infinitive plural second-person
- tapearem infinitive plural third-person
- tapeando gerund
- tapeados masculine participle past
- tapeada feminine participle past
- tapeadas feminine participle past
- tapeias indicative present second-person
- tapeia indicative present singular
- tapeamos first-person indicative plural
- tapeais indicative plural present
- tapeiam indicative plural present
- tapeava first-person imperfect indicative
- tapeavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tapear?
- Brazil /ta.piˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ta.piˈa(h)]
- Brazil /taˈpja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tapear in Portuguese?
tapear appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).