tarnt

/[taʁnt]/ verb

The verdict

“tarnt” is an uncommon German word, ranked #80,993 in German word frequency and used as a verb.

#80,993
frequency rank, German
5
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tarnen

Key facts for tarnt
PropertyValue
Headwordtarnt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[taʁnt]
Letters5
Frequency rank#80,993
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “tarnt” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). tarnt lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for tarnt is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [taʁnt]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,993 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for tarnt in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is tarnt, spelled T-A-R-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tarnen
  2. 2
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tarnen
  3. 3
    2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tarnen

Frequency rank: #80,993 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tarnt"?
"tarnt" is spelled T-A-R-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is [taʁnt].
What does "tarnt" mean?
As a verb, "tarnt" means: 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tarnen
How do you pronounce "tarnt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tarnt" is [taʁnt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tarnt" come from?
"tarnt" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “tarnt”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is T-A-R-N-T — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [taʁnt] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.