tartre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,823
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tartre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dépôt terreux et salin, produit dans les tonneaux par la fermentation du vin, qui s’attache aux douves, s’y durcit et se forme en croûte et qui est constitué par du bitartrate de potassium. Pronounced \taʁtʁ\. Often confused with terre and titre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tartre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tartre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taʁtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,823 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for tartre, with forms such as "atrtre", "tarrtre", and "tarter". 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, "terre", "titre", "torre", 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 tartre, spelled T-A-R-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dépôt terreux et salin, produit dans les tonneaux par la fermentation du vin, qui s’attache aux douves, s’y durcit et se forme en croûte et qui est constitué par du bitartrate de potassium.
- 2Dépôt calcaire issu de la précipitation des minéraux contenus dans l’eau sous l’effet de la chaleur.
- 3Dépôt composé de sels minéraux (carbonate et phosphate) mêles à des débris bactériens, salivaires et alimentaires. qui se dépose à la surface des dents.
- 4Sel de l'acide tartrique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atrtre,tarrtre,tarter,tartrre,tarttre,tatrre,tratre,ttartre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "tartre"
Frequency rank: #48,823 in French
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