tardes
\taʁd\
The verdict
“tardes” is uncommon French (frequency #95,383 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,383
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de tard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardes · tardes · French
tardes · rank #95,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tamisé
Nearest frequency peer: tamisé (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tardes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- taisait
taisait
4,624 corpus weight
- talkies
talkies
4,622 corpus weight
- tamisé
tamisé
4,619 corpus weight
- tardes
tardes
4,618 corpus weight
- Tarnais
Tarnais
4,617 corpus weight
- Tenenbaum
Tenenbaum
4,611 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tardes” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taʁd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “tardes” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
tardes is uncommon French at frequency #95,383 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \taʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de tard.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tardes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is tardes, spelled T-A-R-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de tard.
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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