tartre dentaire
\taʁtʁ dɑ̃.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“tartre dentaire” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ensemble des plaques dentaires minéralisée, qui ne peut donc pas être enlevée avec une brosse à dents, responsable de maladies parodontales : gingivite puis parodontite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tartre dentaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \taʁtʁ dɑ̃.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tartre dentaire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for tartre dentaire is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \taʁtʁ dɑ̃.tɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensemble des plaques dentaires minéralisée, qui ne peut donc pas être enlevée avec une brosse à dents, responsable de maladies parodontales : gingivite puis parodontite.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tartre dentaire in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 dentaire, spelled T-A-R-T-R-E- -D-E-N-T-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ensemble des plaques dentaires minéralisée, qui ne peut donc pas être enlevée avec une brosse à dents, responsable de maladies parodontales : gingivite puis parodontite.
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- The one correct French spelling is T-A-R-T-R-E- -D-E-N-T-A-I-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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