Definitions for tapis

tapis tap·is

Spelling: [tap-ee, tap-is, ta-pee]
IPA: /ˈtæp i, ˈtæp ɪs, tæˈpi/

Tapis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in tapis (aipst).

Definitions for tapis

noun

  1. Obsolete. a carpet, tapestry, or other covering.

Idioms

  1. on the tapis, under consideration or discussion:

Origin of tapis

1485-95; Middle French; Old French tapiz ≪ Greek tapḗtion little carpet, equivalent to tapēt- (stem of tápēs) carpet + -ion diminutive suffix

Examples for tapis

In the winter, when the carpet's down, you are glad to bring that affair on the tapis.

Hanover was then on the tapis, and the King felt the allusion.

Great was the wrath of the Loco-Focos when they found this measure on the tapis.

Apropos, how do you like this thought in a ballad I have just now on the tapis?

It might have brought him on the tapis, with a successful result.

“I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis,” the letter reads.

At Kidderminster there is certain to be something fresh on the tapis.

She gave them quite a while, for she was chatting with the girls about some weddings on the tapis.

I immediately placed the Colonel's broken head upon the tapis.

Dubois, on the first opportunity, brought it again on the tapis.

Word Value for tapis
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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