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rappa

rappa is the pronunciation spelling of rapper.

Meaning of rapper

Noun

rapper (plural rappers)

  1. The knocker of a door.
  2. (historical) A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
  3. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
  4. A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
    • He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.
  5. (Scotland, obsolete) A sword.
  6. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.

See all 9 meanings of rapper

Proper noun capitalized: Rappa

Rappa (plural Rappas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of rappa

Noun
pluralrappas
Proper noun
pluralRappas

Origin of rappa

Borrowed from Italian Rappa.

Questions about rappa

What does rappa mean?
Rappa means a surname from Italian.
What is rappa the pronunciation spelling of?
Rappa is the pronunciation spelling of rapper.
What part of speech is rappa?
Rappa is a proper noun.

Words near rappa in the dictionary

  1. Rapozas
  2. Rapozo
  3. Rapozos
  4. Rapp
  5. Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome
  6. rappa
  7. rappable
  8. rappage
  9. Rappahannock
  10. Rappahannock County
  11. Rappai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rappa (page history and authors); Rappa (page history and authors); rapper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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