tartare
/tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/
"tartare" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tartare” is uncommon English (frequency #63,298 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,298
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chopped fine and served raw.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tartare · tartare · English
tartare · rank #63,298 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,298
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Taranaki
Nearest frequency peer: Taranaki (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “tartare”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tain
tain
36,706 corpus weight
- Tamura
Tamura
36,705 corpus weight
- Taranaki
Taranaki
36,704 corpus weight
- tartare
tartare
36,703 corpus weight
- taskbar
taskbar
36,702 corpus weight
- Tatooine
Tatooine
36,701 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tartare” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tartare |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tartare” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tartare is uncommon English at frequency #63,298 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /tɑːɹˈtɑːɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chopped fine and served raw.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tartare in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: French tartare (literally “Tartar”). The correct English form is tartare, spelled T-A-R-T-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Chopped fine and served raw.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tartare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
steak tartare; salmon tartare
Etymology
French tartare (literally “Tartar”).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).