tardait
\taʁ.dɛ\
The verdict
“tardait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,179 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,179
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardait · tardait · French
tardait · rank #61,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,179
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH Tananarive
Nearest frequency peer: Tananarive (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tardait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tacher
tacher
38,825 corpus weight
- tamisée
tamisée
38,824 corpus weight
- Tananarive
Tananarive
38,823 corpus weight
- tardait
tardait
38,822 corpus weight
- terrorisent
terrorisent
38,821 corpus weight
- thoughts
thoughts
38,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tardait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \taʁ.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tardait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tardait is uncommon French at frequency #61,179 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \taʁ.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tarder.".
tardait has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tardait, spelled T-A-R-D-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de tarder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tardait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur ce, alors que le réalisateur tardait un peu à lancer le générique de fin, il s’est mis à défaire le puzzle, à le désassembler pièce par pièce, machinalement, dans une sorte de négation de sa performance.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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