tartare

\taʁ.taʁ\

/\taʁ.taʁ\/ adj

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The verdict

“tartare” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,372
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Tartares.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tartare · tartare · French

tartare · rank #28,372 · 10 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,372
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH Telegraph

Nearest frequency peer: Telegraph (+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 « tartare »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tartare » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tartare vs tarte
71% similar
tartare vs tertre
71% similar
tartare vs tatars
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tartare
PropertyValue
Headwordtartare
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\taʁ.taʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#28,372
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tartare »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).tartarese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Telegraph » (#28,373), « talisman » (#28,370), « tentaient » (#28,374). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tartare » est au #28,372. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around tartare (IPA \taʁ.taʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,372 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Relatif aux Tartares.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for tartare, with forms such as "atrtare", "taratre", and "tarrtare". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "tarte", "tertre", "tatars", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is tartare, spelled T-A-R-T-A-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif aux Tartares.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tartare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La race turque a joué un grand rôle dans les conquêtes tartares.
  2. Ce dernier est gouverneur de la cour de Koublaï-Khan, le puissant empereur tartare.

This word in other languages

tartare(English)tártaro(Español)tatarisch(Deutsch)tártaro(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atrtare
  • taratre
  • tarrtare
  • tartaer
  • tartarre
  • tartrae
  • tarttare
  • tatrare
  • tratare
  • ttartare

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tartare - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

atrtare2taratre2tarrtare1tartaer2tartarre1tartrae2tarttare1tatrare2
Edit distance from "tartare"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tartare"?
"tartare" is spelled T-A-R-T-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \taʁ.taʁ\.
What does "tartare" mean?
As an adjective, "tartare" means: Relatif aux Tartares.
What words are commonly confused with "tartare"?
"tartare" is commonly confused with "tarte", "tertre", "tatars". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tartare"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tartare" is \taʁ.taʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tartare" come from?
"tartare" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tartare", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

séismes#28,369strates#28,363Spinoza#28,360sourate#28,358

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Truffaut10 variantssondés10 variantsvendetta10 variantssharks10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list