tapei
/taˈpej/ [taˈpeɪ̯]
The verdict
“tapei” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #98,198 among 917 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,198
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do modo indicativo do verbo tapar
Corpus desk
Index PT-tapei · tapei · Portuguese
tapei · rank #98,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH terrina
Nearest frequency peer: terrina (+11 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “tapei”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- stiff
stiff
1,829 corpus weight
- superb
superb
1,818 corpus weight
- tapei
tapei
1,803 corpus weight
- terrina
terrina
1,792 corpus weight
- trombadinha
trombadinha
1,770 corpus weight
- twee
twee
1,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “tapei” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tapei |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /taˈpej/ [taˈpeɪ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “tapei” em português
Rare enough to double-check
tapei is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #98,198 among 917 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /taˈpej/ [taˈpeɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do modo indicativo do verbo tapar".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tapei, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is tapei, spelled T-A-P-E-I.
Definition
- 1primeira pessoa do singular do pretérito perfeito do modo indicativo do verbo tapar
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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