tare

Other forms of tare

plural

tares·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tare

What does tare mean?

tare means "an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tare?

tare has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tare?

Close synonyms include darnel, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tare a common word?

tare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.