tarot

/\ta.ʁo\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#29,563

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

tarot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de carte à jouer tarotée et marquée d’autres figures que les cartes ordinaires. Pronounced \ta.ʁo\. Often confused with tot and tro.

Key facts for tarot
PropertyValue
Headwordtarot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ta.ʁo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#29,563
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of tarot in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for tarot is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ta.ʁo\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,563 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tarot, with forms such as "atrot", "taort", and "tarott". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tot", "tro", "tat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is tarot, spelled T-A-R-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sorte de carte à jouer tarotée et marquée d’autres figures que les cartes ordinaires.
  2. 2
    Jeu qu’on joue avec ces cartes.
  3. 3
    Le dos d’une carte et plus particulièrement le dessin en taille-douce et ornant le dos des cartes (utilisé surtout en prestidigitation).

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atrot,taort,tarott,tarrot,tarto,traot,ttarot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tarot

Misspelling Variants of "tarot"

atrot5taort5tarott6tarrot6tarto5traot5ttarot6
Misspelling Variants of "tarot"

Frequency rank: #29,563 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tarot"?
"tarot" is spelled T-A-R-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ta.ʁo\.
What does "tarot" mean?
As a noun, "tarot" means: Sorte de carte à jouer tarotée et marquée d’autres figures que les cartes ordinaires.
What words are commonly confused with "tarot"?
"tarot" is commonly confused with "tot", "tro", "tat". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tarot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tarot" is \ta.ʁo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tarot" come from?
"tarot" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter T in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.