tappan
/tˈæpən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
noun
An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
Example Sentences
- "The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch."
- "Two minutes more, and the top-knot of the lofty tappan before the house was thrashing the reeds out of the thatch—there was a shriek as of a thousand buzz-saws—a fusillade of branches and pebbles—and the squall had gone yelling away into the east."
Etymology
From Malay tapang.
Word Breakdown
- Root: tapang