targa
\tar.ɡa\
The verdict
“targa” is uncommon French (frequency #72,782 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,782
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voiture, généralement sportive, dont le toit rigide et plat est amovible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-targa · targa · French
targa · rank #72,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,782
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tart
Nearest frequency peer: tart (+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 « targa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- séropositive
séropositive
27,223 corpus weight
- Sézanne
Sézanne
27,222 corpus weight
- sœurette
sœurette
27,221 corpus weight
- targa
targa
27,219 corpus weight
- tart
tart
27,218 corpus weight
- tautologie
tautologie
27,216 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « targa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | targa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tar.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « targa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
targa is uncommon French at frequency #72,782 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tar.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voiture, généralement sportive, dont le toit rigide et plat est amovible.".
targa has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is targa, spelled T-A-R-G-A.
Definition
- 1Voiture, généralement sportive, dont le toit rigide et plat est amovible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how targa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La biplace au design de targa à moteur central deviendra une voiture de série dans les années à venir […]
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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