tardi
\ˈtar.di\
The verdict
“tardi” is uncommon French (frequency #56,966 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,966
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tard, après le moment voulu ; après le temps ordinaire et accoutumé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tardi · tardi · French
tardi · rank #56,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,966
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapi
Nearest frequency peer: tapi (-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 « tardi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taka
taka
43,038 corpus weight
- talks
talks
43,037 corpus weight
- tapi
tapi
43,036 corpus weight
- tardi
tardi
43,035 corpus weight
- tarir
tarir
43,034 corpus weight
- Tarragone
Tarragone
43,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tardi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tardi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈtar.di\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tardi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tardi is uncommon French at frequency #56,966 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈtar.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
tardi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tardi, spelled T-A-R-D-I.
Definition
- 1Tard, après le moment voulu ; après le temps ordinaire et accoutumé.
- 2Tard, à un moment avancé, vers la fin de la journée, de l’année, de la vie, d’une période quelconque.
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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