tartar

Other forms of tartar

plural

tartars·

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 tartar

What does tartar mean?

tartar means "a salt used especially in baking powder". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tartar?

tartar has 2 syllables: tar-tar. The stress falls on "tar". In IPA it is /ˈtɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for tartar?

Close synonyms include cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate, dragon, Tatar. 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 tartar a common word?

tartar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.