targe

/tɑɹd͡ʒ/obsolete

targe is spelled T-A-R-G-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, targe means “A small shield” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of targe is targes.

How many letters and syllables are in targe?

Letters	5: T-A-R-G-E
In writing	about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	large discharge barge enlarge more
Same letters	great grate gater

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 targe?

Targe appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.

targe0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce targe?

UK /tɑːd͡ʒ/
US /tɑɹd͡ʒ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-targe.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with targe?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as targe from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹdʒ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: great, grate, gater.

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).

What does targe mean?

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

noun

1
archaicA small shield.
2
archaicA pendant or tassel.

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