tart
\tɑː(ɹ)t\
The verdict
“tart” is uncommon French (frequency #72,783 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,783
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acerbe, dur, sévère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tart · tart · French
tart · rank #72,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,783
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH targa
Nearest frequency peer: targa (-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 « tart »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- tchécoslova…
tchécoslovaques
27,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tart » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tart |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \tɑː(ɹ)t\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tart » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tart is uncommon French at frequency #72,783 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \tɑː(ɹ)t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tart, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 tart, spelled T-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Acerbe, dur, sévère.
- 2Aigre, sur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a tart reply.
I ate a very tart apple.
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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