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dart

/dɑɹt/noun, verb

dart is spelled D-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dart means “A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dart is darts.

How many letters and syllables are in dart?

Letters4: D-A-R-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is dart?

Dart appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce dart?

  • UK /dɑːt/
  • US /dɑɹt/
  • [daɹt̚]

Dart has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dart.ogg, EN-AU_ck1_dart.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with dart?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dart from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: trad, drat.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of dart

  • darts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • darting participle, present
  • darted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dart mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.

  2. 2

    Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.

  3. 3

    Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.

  4. 4

    A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.

  5. 5

    A concave quadrilateral similar in shape to a chevron or arrowhead.

  6. 6

    AustraliaCanadacolloquialA cigarette.

  7. 7

    A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.

  8. 8

    AustraliaobsoleteA plan or scheme.

verb

  1. 1

    To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.

  2. 2

    To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.

    As the sun darted forth his beams, she darted a meaningful glance at me.

  3. 3

    To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.

    They had to dart the animal to get close enough to help

  4. 4

    To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.

    The flying man darted eastward.

  5. 5

    To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.

    The deer darted from the thicket.

noun

as DART
  1. 1

    Acronym of disaster assistance response team.

  2. 2

    Disaster animal response team.

  3. 3

    Disaster area response team.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of disaster assistance and rescue team.

  5. 5

    Disaster response team.

noun

as Dart
  1. 1

    UKslangAn officer trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Dart in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdard, trait, flèche (sharp-pointed missile weapon), pli piqué, pince (stitched fold), fléchettes (game)
Portuguesedardo (sharp-pointed missile weapon)
Spanishdardo, jáculo, venablo, azagaya (sharp-pointed missile weapon), pinza (stitched fold)
GermanAbnäher (stitched fold)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does dart come from?

From Middle English dart, from Old French dart, dard (“dart”), from Medieval Latin dardus, from Frankish *darōþu (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Germanic *darōþuz (“dart, spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerh₃- (“to leap, spring”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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