crème de tartre
\kʁɛm də taʁtʁ\
The verdict
“crème de tartre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bitartrate de potassium.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crème de tartre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁɛm də taʁtʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crème de tartre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for crème de tartre is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁɛm də taʁtʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bitartrate de potassium.".
No misspelling variants are generated for crème de tartre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is crème de tartre, spelled C-R-È-M-E- -D-E- -T-A-R-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bitartrate de potassium.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-È-M-E- -D-E- -T-A-R-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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