tarot
/ˈtæɹəʊ/
"tarot" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tarot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,927
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A card game played in various different variations.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tarot · tarot · English
tarot · rank #24,927 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,927
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH surcharge
Nearest frequency peer: surcharge (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “tarot”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stumps
stumps
75,078 corpus weight
- surcharge
surcharge
75,075 corpus weight
- tarot
tarot
75,074 corpus weight
- TCP
TCP
75,073 corpus weight
- throbbing
throbbing
75,071 corpus weight
- tilting
tilting
75,070 corpus weight
What this shows “tarot” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtæɹəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tarot”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tarot (IPA /ˈtæɹəʊ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,927 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tarot, with forms such as "atrot", "taort", and "tarott". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tat", "tot", "Troy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock. The correct English form is tarot, spelled T-A-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1A card game played in various different variations.
- 2Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tarot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed. […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot. As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a we…
Etymology
Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrot
- taort
- tarott
- tarrot
- tarto
- traot
- ttarot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tarot - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tarot", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).