tards
\taʁ\
The verdict
“tards” is uncommon French (frequency #97,474 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,474
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculine pluriel de tard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tards · tards · French
tards · rank #97,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,474
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tartarin
Nearest frequency peer: tartarin (+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 « tards »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tague
tague
2,531 corpus weight
- taisons
taisons
2,530 corpus weight
- taloche
taloche
2,529 corpus weight
- tards
tards
2,527 corpus weight
- tartarin
tartarin
2,526 corpus weight
- terras
terras
2,524 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tards » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tards |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #97,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tards » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tards is uncommon French at frequency #97,474 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculine pluriel de tard.".
Zero misspellings are on record for tards in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tards, spelled T-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1Masculine 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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