dart

/\daʁ\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#46,097

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

dart is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de papier de pâte grise. Pronounced \daʁ\. Often confused with dr and dt.

Key facts for dart
PropertyValue
Headworddart
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\daʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#46,097
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dart in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dart is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \daʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,097 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sorte de papier de pâte grise.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for dart, with forms such as "adrt", "darrt", and "dartt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dr", "dt", "dur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 dart, spelled D-A-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de papier de pâte grise.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: adrt,darrt,dartt,datr,ddart,drat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dart

Misspelling Variants of "dart"

adrt4darrt5dartt5datr4ddart5drat4
Misspelling Variants of "dart"

Frequency rank: #46,097 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dart"?
"dart" is spelled D-A-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \daʁ\.
What does "dart" mean?
As a noun, "dart" means: Sorte de papier de pâte grise.
What words are commonly confused with "dart"?
"dart" is commonly confused with "dr", "dt", "dur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dart"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dart" is \daʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dart" come from?
"dart" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.