tartaric

1. 1.

   relating to or derived from or resembling tartar

   “tartaric acid”

Questions about tartaric

What does tartaric mean?

tartaric means "relating to or derived from or resembling tartar".

How many syllables are in tartaric?

tartaric has 3 syllables and divides as tar-ta-ric under the regular spelling rules. 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.

Is tartaric a common word?

tartaric 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.