tartares
\taʁ.taʁ\
The verdict
“tartares” is uncommon French (frequency #52,391 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,391
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de tartare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tartares · tartares · French
tartares · rank #52,391 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,391
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tapissier
Nearest frequency peer: tapissier (-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 « tartares »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- taillent
taillent
47,613 corpus weight
- taking
taking
47,612 corpus weight
- tapissier
tapissier
47,611 corpus weight
- tartares
tartares
47,610 corpus weight
- Taste
Taste
47,609 corpus weight
- teatro
teatro
47,608 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tartares » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tartares |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \taʁ.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tartares » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tartares is uncommon French at frequency #52,391 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \taʁ.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de tartare.".
tartares doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tartares, spelled T-A-R-T-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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.
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