tarte aux poils
\taʁ.t‿o pwal\
The verdict
“tarte aux poils” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sexe féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tarte-aux-poils · tarte aux poils · French
tarte aux poils · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tarte aux poils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁ.t‿o pwal\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
tarte aux poils is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \taʁ.t‿o pwal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sexe féminin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tarte aux poils in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tarte aux poils, spelled T-A-R-T-E- -A-U-X- -P-O-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Sexe féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tarte aux poils appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] moi qui te cause, l’ami, moi qui te déconne à longueur de vie, j’ai su un mec qui pleurait en broutant le frifri d’une fille. Qui pleurait d’amour pour elle, en pleine dégustation de tarte aux poils, comme dit l’Audiard. Qui pleurait la bouche pleine, enfouit dans les profondeurs de celle qu’il bouffait […].
Papa, lui pour vraiment s’éclater, se faire téter le gland… se payer une part de tarte aux poils, il allait chez Mme Fernande, Mme Noémie… Mme Lulu… Aux Petites Folies, à la Belle Étoile.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.