tardèrent
\taʁ.dɛʁ\
The verdict
“tardèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #88,151 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,151
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarderent · tardèrent · French
tardèrent · rank #88,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,151
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tankers
Nearest frequency peer: tankers (-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 « tardèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tabitha
Tabitha
11,855 corpus weight
- tankers
tankers
11,851 corpus weight
- tardèrent
tardèrent
11,850 corpus weight
- tarses
tarses
11,848 corpus weight
- taylorisme
taylorisme
11,847 corpus weight
- Technik
Technik
11,846 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tardèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \taʁ.dɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tardèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tardèrent is uncommon French at frequency #88,151 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \taʁ.dɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tarder.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tardèrent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tardèrent, spelled T-A-R-D-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de tarder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tardèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Malgré ces miracles les Bayeusains ne tardèrent pas à se dégoûter de leur évêque, et ils le chassèrent ignominieusement.
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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