# tartar vs Tatar

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### tartar
*noun · IPA /ˈtɑɹ.tɚ/ · frequency rank #33,874*
A red compound deposited during wine making, mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate; wine stone — a source of cream of tartar.

### 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.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tartar-vs-tatar