# tar vs Tatar

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### tar
*noun · IPA /tɑː/ · frequency rank #12,515*
A black, oily, sticky, viscous substance, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons derived from organic materials such as wood, peat, or coal.

### Tatar
*name · IPA /ˈtætɑː(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #37,728*
An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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