tarot
\ta.ʁo\
The verdict
“tarot” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,563
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de carte à jouer tarotée et marquée d’autres figures que les cartes ordinaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarot · tarot · French
tarot · rank #29,563 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,563
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapait
Nearest frequency peer: tapait (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tarot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tangibles
tangibles
70,440 corpus weight
- tapait
tapait
70,439 corpus weight
- tarot
tarot
70,438 corpus weight
- taser
taser
70,437 corpus weight
- tessa
tessa
70,436 corpus weight
- théâtrales
théâtrales
70,435 corpus weight
What this shows « tarot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ta.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tarot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tarot (IPA \ta.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,563 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tarot, with forms such as "atrot", "taort", and "tarott". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tot", "tro", "tat", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is tarot, spelled T-A-R-O-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de carte à jouer tarotée et marquée d’autres figures que les cartes ordinaires.
- 2Jeu qu’on joue avec ces cartes.
- 3Le dos d’une carte et plus particulièrement le dessin en taille-douce et ornant le dos des cartes (utilisé surtout en prestidigitation).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tarot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Descartes, c'est le type qui a mis au point la divination par le tarot, non ? Je connais un gars, Jasper, qui est du genre à y croire dur comme fer mais, pour être franche, je doute un peu que le tarot permette d'accéder à la vérité éternelle.
Jeannin était joueur et même tricheur, entraîné à cela par un autre ; et insensiblement ils se mirent à tenir tripot, entendez qu'ils attiraient des inconnus à la table de nuit ; on passait du tarot au baccara pendant que nous dormions, et les étrangers étaient plumés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atrot
- taort
- tarott
- tarrot
- tarto
- traot
- ttarot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tarot - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).