tardez
\taʁ.de\
The verdict
“tardez” is uncommon French (frequency #64,817 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,817
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tarder.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardez · tardez · French
tardez · rank #64,817 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,817
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapa
Nearest frequency peer: tapa (-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 « tardez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taillon
taillon
35,187 corpus weight
- tanker
tanker
35,186 corpus weight
- tapa
tapa
35,185 corpus weight
- tardez
tardez
35,184 corpus weight
- tatoueurs
tatoueurs
35,183 corpus weight
- tellurique
tellurique
35,182 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tardez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \taʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tardez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tardez is uncommon French at frequency #64,817 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \taʁ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tardez, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tardez, spelled T-A-R-D-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de tarder.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de tarder.
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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